Population and Deforestation
What is a natural resource?
What is something from earth that living things need to meet their needs.
What is Nitrogen
The change of a green land into a developed land.
What is urbanization?
Contamination of the environment by substances that are harmful to life.
What is pollution?
The opposite of deforestation?
What is reforestation?
Tropical rainforests are home to what % of all species on Earth?
What is 50%
It is decayed organic material used as a fertilizer for growing plants.
What is compost?
It increases the risk of flooding.
What does an increase in runoff cause?
A land used to throw consumed products away.
What is a landfill?
The process of restoring land disturbed by mining.
What is reclamation?
What is the world human population now?
What is around 8 billion.
When rocks, sediments, and Soil are picked up and moved to another place by ice, water, or wind.
What is erosion?
Because of the paved land and inability of water to seep into the ground.
Why does runoff happen more often in an urbanized area?
It affects soil and water in the first place, and then living things that depend on soil and water around the landfill.
What are the effects of chemicals seeping from landfills?
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
What are the 3 R's?
The removal of large areas of forest for human purposes is called?
What is deforestation?
It happens when high rates of soil erosion happen, and nutrients erode with the soil so the land wont be able to grow crops again.
What causes desertification?
In order to increase it, we have to add more parks and vegetation in and urban area.
How can we increase infiltration in an urban area?
Since groundwater is used as a source for drinking water and we have to prevent these pollutants from entering ground water.
Why is it important to keep hazardous wastes away from landfills?
The soil will be naturally enriched with nutrients.
How compost affects soil?
How does deforestation affect animals?
What is destroys their habitats which can lead to extinction.
A third impact besides pesticide usage and soil quality is the waste of space.
What is another impact of agriculture?
They both have in common the destruction of animal habitats.
What do deforestation and urbanization have in common?
Some examples include motor oil and batteries.
What are some examples of hazardous wastes?
Urban runoff will be reduced and air quality will improve?
What effect does building a park in an urban area have on the environment?