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How many species of plants have provided for the majority of the world's food needs?

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14

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Total fertility rate is the defined as the average number of children born to women.

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True

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Anyone can be an environmentalist but not everyone can be an environmental scientist.

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True

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It is characterized by a fast change and then leveling off at a saturation point.

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Saturation curve

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What is the layer of the Earth's subsystem that contains the highest amount of ozone?

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Stratosphere

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It is the actual amount of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum it can hold.

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The Law of Preservation of Energy states that energy is neither created nor destroyed.

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These are organisms or microorganisms that may eat and/or destroy agricultural plants.

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It is also known as petroleum and the largest source of commercial energy in the world.

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The second trophic level which feed on plants, algae and other photosynthetic bacteria.

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The transfer of energy and chemical elements and compounds from one creature to another.

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What is the activity involved with farming of protein in marine and freshwater habitats?

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A positive exponential curve stabilizing at or near a carrying capacity (often S-shaped).

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Among crude oil, wind, coal, nuclear energy, biomass, which types of energy are renewable?

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Mangrove forests are examples of wetlands. What kind of wetlands are the mangrove forests?

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When populations exceed the environment's carrying capacity, what will most likely happen?

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Climate variations can also be attributed to natural cycles such as the Milankovitch cycle.

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It is better to rely on different, varied sources of energy rather than one, finite supply.

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It states that geological and biological processes in the past are the same as the present.

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