Mitigation
Populations
Mitigation 2
Toxins
Mitigation 3
100
The production of crops, livestock, and other goods for human consumption
What is agriculture?
100
The number of live births per 1,000 people per year
What is the birth rate?
100
A mitigation method in which land is returned to its original state after mining
What is reclamation?
100
The total amount of chemical that enters the body
What is dose?
100
Rapid expansion of a city into the surrounding countryside
What is urbanization?
200
A mitigation method that involved replanting trees after they have been cut down
What is reforestation?
200
What is rapid growth?
200
A mitigation method in which organic waste is left to decompose and is used as fertilizer
What is composting?
200
Exposure that occurs infrequently and briefly
What is acute exposure?
200
The process of collecting, treating, and discarding trash of all kinds.
What is waste disposal?
300
Higher temperatures found in cities because heat is absorbed and retained more.
What is the urban heat island effect?
300
The change in the size of a population without considering migration
What is the Rate of Natural Increase?
300
A resource that can be replenished in a short period of time (months, years, decades).
What is a renewable resource?
300
The unique way someone gets sick or responds to exposure to a toxin.
What is individual susceptibility?
300
A resource that takes a long time to replenish (millions of years)
What is a non-renewable resource?
400
Designed by people to reduce or prevent the specific impacts of a human activity.
What is a mitigation method?
400
The maximum population size that the environment can sustain indefinitely
What is carrying capacity?
400
Individuals using a public resource act in their own interest, which can negatively impact the resource for everyone.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
400
The dosage of chemical that will kill half of a test group
What is LD50?
400
The unit of measurement for ecological footprint
What is a global hectare?
500
Logging an entire forest, leaving behind only soil
What is clear-cutting?
500
A factor that causes population growth to decrease
What is a limiting factor?
500
Machines dig large holes/pits into the surface to remove materials.
What is open pit mining?
500
Chemicals that interfere with the hormones in your body
What are endocrine disruptors?
500
How long it would take to use the max amount of natural resources from nature that the Earth can renew in a year (if everyone lived like you).
What is Earth Overshoot Day?