Unit 4
The types of plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
Individuals will use shared resources in their own self-interest rather than in keeping with the common good, thereby depleting the resources.
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
A waste created during precipitation that contains pollutants and adversely affects the quality of watersheds.
What is urban/stormwater runoff?
An energy source that uses radioactive material.
What is nuclear power?
The renewable energy source powered by moving water.
What is hydroelectric power?
The reason for the seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
Practices include tilling, slash-and-burn farming, and the use of fertilizers.
What are harmful agricultural practices?
The controlled cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants.
What is aquaculture?
Energy resources that can be replenished naturally, at or near the rate of consumption, and reused.
What are renewable energy sources?
Furrow, flood, spray, and drip.
What are types of irrigation?
The phenomena associated with changing ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
Roads, buildings, sidewalks, etc, that do not allow water to reach the soil, leading to flooding.
What are impervious surfaces?
Examples include biocontrol, intercropping, crop rotation, and natural predators.
What is integrated pest management (IPM)?
The fossil fuels, biofuels, geothermal and nuclear are used to power a ___ to generate electricity.
What is a steam turbine?
The components (or "ingredients") of soil.
What are rock, humus, nutrients, water, air, and living organisms?
Circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Methods of mining. (List 3)
What are surface mining, open pit mining, strip mining, contour strip mining, subsurface mining, mountaintop removal?
The benefits of using no-till agriculture. (List 2)
What are decreased erosion, higher water infiltration, improved soil nutrients, lower albedo, lower greenhouse emissions.
This energy source breaks bonds in water to form a gas that is used to generate electricity via a chemical reaction.
What is a hydrogen fuel cell?
2 cases where accidents or natural disasters led to the release of radiation from a nuclear power plant.
What are Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, or Fukushima?
The soil horizon layers from top to bottom.
What is O, A, B, C, Bedrock, E?
Drawbacks of meat production. (List 3)
What are: ground and surface water contamination from waste, overgrazing, soil erosion, desertification, increased greenhouse gases, antibiotics and hormones in food, loss of topsoil.
Effects of urbanization on the environment. (List 3)
What are depletion of resources, saltwater intrusions, increased CO2 emissions, flooding, polluted watersheds, deforestation?
Pollutants released during the combustion of fossil fuels. (List 3)
What are CO2, SO2, particulate matter, radon, CO, CH4, radioactive waste, VOCs,NOx, H2S?
The angle of insolation that causes the warmest temperatures on Earth.
What is 90 degrees?