Forests
This is the biggest driver of deforestation in the tropical rainforest.
What is cattle/grazing
What is shark-fin soup
Adding antibiotics to animal feed is done to increase animal growth and what other reason?
To reduce disease spread in the cramped conditions on factory farms
This gas is 20-25 times more potent of a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
what is methane?
The name for chemicals sprayed on crops to kill weeds that often runs off into local streams.
What are herbicides
This is the term for cutting all the trees from an area leaving soil very vulnerable to erosion
Clear-cutting
Small aquatic organisms take up toxins which build up in the food chain causing large fish to have high levels of the toxin
what is biological magnification
This has caused a dead zone in the gulf of Mexico
Agricultural run-off from the Mississippi River
What is causing ocean acidification?
When a species is moved by people to a new region where it lack predators and competitors so it outcompetes native organisms.
What is an invasive species?
A forest crop that is usually grown in monoculture (there are many)
Coffee, Palm oil, Cocoa, Pulp wood
The word for the accidental capture of a non-target species when fishing
What is bycatch
The trend in the size and number of farms in this country
What is fewer larger farms
How putting food scraps in the compost instead of the trash helps fight climate change
What is it reduces anaerobic decomposition and methane production
Breaking wildlands into smaller patches by agriculture, buildings, and roads
The pool of carbon molecules that build the mass of a tree
What is the air
What is ocean acidification
A majority of corn in this country is grown to make cattle feed and this biofuel
What is ethanol
Albedo is a measure of what property?
What is reflectivity?
These are the two main nutrients that are polluting our streams and lakes from run-off
What are Nitrogen and Phosphorous
The word for taking carbon from the atmosphere and trapping it in terrestrial biological systems.
What is sequestration
A name for a kind of deep water fishing where a huge net scrapes along the bottom of the ocean
What is deep-water trawling
This Biome makes the best agricultural land
What is grassland/prairie
The name for proposed large scale climate mitigation strategies like Space mirrors and Marine Cloud Brightening
What is geoengineering
This continent will show the highest human population growth over the next decade.
What is Africa