Development & Income
These are the five oceans
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Southern, Indian, and Arctic?
This is the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations.
What is sustainability?
This percentage of Earth’s water is found in the oceans.
What is 97.5%?
This gas makes up 78% of the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This is a place where plants and animals live and can meet their needs for food, water, and shelter.
What is a habitat?
These countries have the weakest economies and are the least developed.
What are Low-Income Countries (LICs)?
is is the maximum amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested without depleting it for future use.
What is Maximum Sustainable Yield?
This is the process by which plants release water vapor from their leaves.
What is transpiration?
This is the lowest atmospheric layer, where we live and where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
A group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place is called this, while all the populations living together in an ecosystem form a community.
What is a population?
These three areas are measured by the Human Development Index (HDI).
What are health, education, and living standards?
In the IPAT model, I = P × A × T. This is what the “A” stands for.
What is affluence (per person)?
This is the movement of water into the soil.
What is infiltration?
This layer contains the ozone layer, which protects Earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
Sunlight, temperature, precipitation, and soil are examples of these non-living components of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
This measure only shows economic development and says nothing about whether people have a good standard of living.
What is GNI per capita?
This is the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support a population and absorb its waste.
What is an ecological footprint?
This is the surface movement of water down slopes to the sea.
What is runoff?
Pollutants called CFCs are destroying the ozone layer, which has a large hole over this continent.
What is Antarctica?
Ecosystems that are dry, with flat areas of land, hot summers, and cold winters are called this. They get more rain and snow than deserts but less than most ecosystems.
What are grasslands?
LICs often sell materials in raw form because they lack these, which keeps their earnings low.
What are factories or processing facilities?
Experts have identified these four basic causes of environmental problems.
What are population growth, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, and failure to include the harmful environmental costs of goods and services in market prices?
This is the name for the length of time water typically spends in one compartment. For ocean water, it’s about 3,000 years.
What is residence time?
The sun emits this type of radiation because it is extremely hot, while Earth emits the other type because it is cooler.
What are shortwave (sun) and longwave (Earth) radiation?
Ponds and lakes are this type of aquatic ecosystem (stagnant water), while rivers and oceans are the other type (flowing water).
What is lentic (and lotic is the flowing type)?