Pollution
The presence in the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects.
What is air pollution?
The percentage of energy which does not move on to the next trophic level.
What is 90%?
Exponential growth graph.
What is a J-curve?
The process by which thermal radiation from Earth's surface is absorbed by certain gases and bounced back.
What are fossil fuels?
Small particles that rest midway in the air.
What are particulates?
An inherited characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?
The growth rate of a city population of 10,000 experiences 100 births, 30 deaths, 10 immigrants, and 20 emigrants in the course of a year.
What is 0.6%?
Encompasses how one thinks the world works; how one views one’s role in the world; and what one believes to be proper environmental behavior.
What is an environmental world view?
The "cleanest" type of nonrenewable energy.
What is natural gas?
The enrichment of bodies of fresh water by inorganic plant nutrients (e.g. nitrate, phosphate).
What is eutrophication?
When two species divide a resource based on differences in their behavior or morphology.
What is resource partitioning?
Doubling time of a country grows at a rate of approximately 5 percent per year.
What is 14 years?
The collective natural effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years.
What is the Milankovitch Cycle?
A nuclear power plant in 1986 that released large amounts of radiation in Ukraine.
What is Chernobyl?
This law regulates air pollution.
What is The Clean Air Act?
This ecosystem has the highest level of productivity.
What is the tropical rainforest?
As a country moves from a subsistence economy to industrialization and increased affluence, it undergoes a predictable shift in population growth.
Carbon dioxide emissions have increased by this percentage.
What is 25%?
How energy is released during an earthquake.
What is elastic rebound theory?
The independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
The process of speciation that occurs with geographic isolation.
What is allopatric speciation?
An estimate of the average number of children that each woman in a population will bear throughout her childbreaing years.
International treaty that sets binding obligations on developed countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
What is Kyoto Protocol?
The official term for electronic component that generates electricity when exposed to photons, or particles of light.
What is a photovoltaic cell?