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The leeward side of a mountain range which is left dry and arid
What is rain shadow?
The molten semi-liquid rock underground
What is magma?
Production of crops without the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
What is organic agriculture?
When urban regions are warmer than their rural surroundings, creating an islands of higher temperature in the landscape
What is urban heat island?
A large-scale climatic phenomenon that originates in the tropical Pacific but affects global climate patterns. Warm phase and cold phase.
What is El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)?
The decomposed form of plants and animals which is added to the soil to improve fertility
What is manure?
When rocks and minerals are heated, melted, cooled, broken down, and reassembled in a very slow process
What is the rock cycle?
A combination of methods that if used in the proper order at the proper times, keep the pest population low enough
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?
Areas similiar to suburban but are not connected to any central city or desnly populated area
What is exurban?
An oceanic circulation pattern that drives the mixing of surface water and deep water
What is thermohaline circulation?
The controlled process of cultivating aquatic organisms, especially for human consumption
What is aquaculture?
A curved chain of volcanic islands that form where a tectonic plate moves over a geologic hotspot
What is island arc?
Two or more crop species planted in the same field at same time
What is intercropping?
The growth of low-density development on the edges of cities and towns
What is urban sprawl?
Large scale patterns of water that rotate in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere
What is gyre?
The second way of responding to an ongoing problem, by accepting what's happening and create strategies to minimize its impact
What is adaptation?
The process that creates new lithosphere on the sea floor plates move away from each other at the mid-ocean ridges
What is seafloor spreading?
Probably one of the oldest methods of irrigating fields, where farmers flow water down small trenches running through their crops
What is furrow irrigation?
As population shifts to the suburbs, city revenue shrinks, positive feedback that accelerates the degradation of city
What is urban blight?
Occurs when a coral become stressed and expels most of the algae, leaving a skeleton of calcium carbonate
What is coral bleaching?
regardless of the number of calories they consume, nearly one-half of the world's population has this problem
What is malnutrition?
It drives the weather and climate on Earth and energy necessary for all living organisms
An organochlorine insecticide used in agriculture, made famous by Rachel Carson in her book "Silent Spring"
What is DDT? (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane)
A set of principles for community planning that focues on strategies to encourage the development of sustainable, healthy communities
What is smart growth?
Bottom of an aquatic ecosystem; consists of sand and sediment and supports its own community of organisms
What is benthic zone?