Sustainability & Energy
This term describes using resources in a way that meets current needs without harming future generations.
What is sustainability?
This term refers to the number of people living in a certain area.
What is population density?
This field uses living organisms or biological systems to solve problems and improve products.
What is biotechnology?
Carbon dioxide and methane trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and are examples of these gases.
What are greenhouse gases?
Bacteria, viruses, and fungi that cause disease are called these.
What are pathogenic agents?
Energy sources such as wind, solar, and water power are examples of this type of energy source.
What is renewable energy?
This describes the total number of individuals in a population.
What is population size?
Electric vehicles and smart irrigation systems are examples of this used to protect the environment.
What is innovative technology?
Damage to this atmospheric layer increases harmful UV radiation reaching Earth.
What is ozone layer depletion?
Temperature, pH, humidity, solar radiation
and water quality are examples of these environmental measurements.
What are environmental parameters?
This type of energy is produced by capturing sunlight using panels.
What is solar energy?
The maximum number of organisms an environment can support is called this.
What is carrying capacity?
Wind turbines and solar panels are examples of these environmental solutions.
What are renewable energy solutions?
Burning coal, oil, and natural gas contributes heavily to air pollution and this global issue.
What is climate change?
Access to healthcare, clean water, and sanitation are examples of these.
What are factors that influence public health?
This energy source creates electricity through splitting atoms but also produces radioactive waste.
What is nuclear energy?
This population model shows the percentages of different age groups in a population.
What is age structure?
The main goal of many environmental technologies is to reduce pollution and protect this.
What is the environment?
People evacuating coastal areas and improving building codes are examples of this weather event influencing human behavior.
What are hurricanes?
Government rules and laws that impact environmental protection are known as these.
What are policy decisions?
This type of renewable energy uses moving water to generate electricity.
What is hydroelectric power?
Food, water, disease, and space are examples of these that control population growth.
What are limiting factors?
An innovation that provides clean drinking water, moreover, it reduces plastic waste, lowers
carbon footprint associated with manufacturing and transporting bottled water, helps conserve natural
resources.
What is a water filtration system?
Water that soaks into the ground and fills the porous spaces and fractures in soil, sand, and rock beneath the Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
Traits inherited from parents that may influence health are known as these.
What are genetic factors?