Land Use
Food/Agriculture
Geology/Earth Resources
Energy
Environmental Health/Toxicology
Solid/Hazardous Waste
Economics and Urbanization
Environmental Policy/Sustainability
1000
Strips of habitat that connect fragmented preserves to enhance species survival are known as these.
What are Corridors?
1000
Globally these three crops provide the majority of human nutrients and calories.
What are wheat, rice, and maize (corn)?
1000
The process of a tectonic plate being forced below another.
What is Subduction?
1000
an alternative fuel that can be made from any fat or vegetable oil.
What is Biodiesel?
1000
The dose of a chemical that kills half of a tested population
What is LD50?
1000
The use of biological organisms, like bacteria, to clean up pollutants.
What is Bioremediation?
1000
Legal but inadequate housing
What is Slum?
Crowded rooms, poor ventilation and sanitation, rickety and unsafe structures
1000
Depleting an open-access resource to the point of extinction due to unregulated individual use (greed) is known as this.
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
Ex: the truffula tree, goldfish in the overfishing lab.
2000
Of the forest management techniques from the textbook, this method leaves a forest closest to its natural "old growth" state.
What is selective harvest?
Forest management techniques:
Clearcut - most destructive; strip cut - better than clearcut but still bad; shelterwood harvest - much better; selective harvest - best
2000
This is the reason corn and soy production is related to meat production
What is these crops are primary ingredients used for livestock feed?
2000
“Harbor wave,” giant sea swells caused by earthquakes
What is Tsunami?
2000
Concentrated solar power, a wind turbine, a nuclear power plant, and a coal-fired powerplant share this characteristc.
What is spinning a turbine that drives a generator to produce an electrical current?
2000
Substances that over stimulate the immune system
What are Allergens?
2000
The steady production of all waste products produced by humans.
What is Waste Stream?
2000
Resources that will always renew themselves unless they are destroyed by human activity.
What are renewable resources?
2000
This landmark treaty banned CFCs to protect the stratospheric ozone layer.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
3000
Considered biodiversity hotspots, deforestation of this type of forest is most concerning to scientists.
What are tropical forests?
occupying less than 10% of earth's land, tropical forests house about half of all plant, animal and microbial species in the world.
3000
These organisms are engineered to increase food security through higher yields and pest/drought/disease resistance
What are Genetically Modified Organisms?
3000
The technique of injecting pressurized fluid into an oil or natural gas well to break up sediments for extraction
What is Hydraulic Fracturing?
3000
Failure of this system is the most common cause of nuclear reactor disaster
What is cooling system failure.
If the fuel rods are not kept cool, they overheat and melt, usually due to a loss of coolant flow or a total power failure at the facility.
3000
A new disease or one that has been absent for at least 20 years.
What is an emergent disease?
3000
Waste that is toxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, corrosive, or explosive
What is Hazardous Waste?
3000
The low-density, unplanned expansion of cities into surrounding rural areas
What is urban sprawl?
3000
This policy aims to make surface waters healthy and swimmable
What is the Clean Water Act?
4000
This sustainable grassland management technique prevents overgrazing by confining animals to a small area for a short time before moving livestock to a different section
What is rotational grazing?
This technique simulates the effects of a wild herd, ensuring all vegetation gets eaten, the ground gets well trampled, and the soil gets well fertilized
4000
Beyond reducing erosion, legumes such as alfalfa and clover are used as cover crops for this chemical benefit.
What is nitrogen fixation?
The roots of legumes host nitrogen fixing bacteria in a symbiotic relationship that convert atmospheric nitrogen into a chemical form that enriches the soil naturally, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers.
4000
The rock cycle shows how rocks are
What is broken down and converted to new rocks?
(Sedimentary to Metamorphic to Igneous to Sedimentary/Metamorphic.)
4000
This method of waste disposal adds air pollution and is more expensive than a sanitary landfill.
What is incineration?
4000
The buildup of toxins within a single individual organism over its lifetime.
What is bioaccumulation?
4000
A "green infrastructure" technique of planting rooftop gardens.
What are "green roofs"?
Improve air quality; conserve energy; reduce runoff, noise, and the heat island effect
Ex: Chicago City Hall.
4000
Set forth by the UN in 2016, these 17 global goals focus on ending poverty, reducing inequality, protecting the environment, and increasing economic growth
What are sustainable development goals?
5000
This organic animal waste is widely considered the classic textbook example of a natural fertilizer
What is manure?
5000
This substance primarily makes up the Earth's core.
What is Iron?
5000
Of commercial rooftops, airports, agricultural land, or residential neighborhoods, this location typically harnesses the least amount of solar PV energy due to obstructions like tree shading, chimneys, and fragmented roof angles,
What are suburban or residential neighborhoods?
5000
The build up of toxins up the food chain from prey to top predators
What is biomagnification?
5000
A policy protecting endangered species, specifically the trade of wildlife and their parts. (hint: not the ESA)
What is CITES, the Covention on International Trade in Endangered Speices?