Vocab Words
The name for the gradual removal of soil, by water, wind, or gravity.
What is Erosion?
Energy that is always available or is replaced in a relatively short amount of time.
What is renewable energy?
The name of the act that was passed to protect human and environmental health through the improving of air quality.
What is the Clean Air Act?
cancer causing chemical hazard
What are carcinogens?
Poor agricultural practices and a widespread drought led to economic and ecological devastation throughout the Great Plains states
What is the Dust Bowl?
The name for the spongelike formations of rock, sand, or gravel that hold water.
What are aquifers?
The kinetic energy of atoms and molecules.
What is thermal energy?
The act that prohibits the releasing of pollution from a point source and set standards for pollutant levels in water sources.
What is the Clean Water Act?
Chemical hazard that interferes with hormone systems
What are endocrine disrupters?
Breeding, raising, and harvesting of aquatic plants or animals
What is aquaculture?
The name for the transfer of energy through space, such as the heat from the sun to the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is radiation?
The energy source that produces the least amount of emissions.
What is nuclear energy?
The treaty that cut CFC production by 95 percent since the 1980s and has helped the ozone layer recover.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
Harm the nervous system
What are neurotoxins?
A loss of more than 10% soil productivity due to erosion, forest removal, drought, climate change, or other factors
What is desertification?
The name of an area of water that experiences a lack of oxygen and can not sustain marine life.
What is a dead zone?
The name of the shortest wavelength.
What are radio waves?
The act that encourages prescribed burns and promotes the act of salvage logging which is the removal of small trees, underbrush, and snags.
What is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act?
Lead to mutations in DNA, can cause mutations in offspring if in egg/sperm cells
What are chemical mutagens?
Concentrated animal feeding operations designed to raise more animals in a smaller area
What are feedlots?
The name of the buildup of toxins in the tissues of an organism.
What is Bioaccumulation?
The name of the event and location of the place where a partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor occurred in the United States.
What is Three Mile Island, Middletown Pennsylvania?
The act that established programs to buy degrading farmland from farmers and education for local farmers.
What is the Soil Conservation Act?
Substances that can pass through the placenta and cause harm to a developing embryo
What is a teratogen?
Biological and chemical pest control to achieve the most effective, long-term solution
What is Integrated Pest Management?