Earth
The science that deals with the earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it.
What is geology?
A mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer consisting primarily of grasses.
What is savanna?
The San Andreas Fault is an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, group, etc.
What is carbon footprint?
A place where some material collects, builds up, or is stored.
What is a reservoir?
An angle (defined below) which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles.
What is latitude?
relating to the structure of populations.
What is demographic?
Process occurring at convergent boundaries that causes earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes.
What is subduction?
Any benefit humans get from nature.
What is an ecosystem service?
Fungus that grows in moist environments and causes allergic reactions.
What is mold/mildew?
The cause of Earth's seasons.
The tilt of Earth's axis.
a set of research technology transferinitiatives occurring between 1950 and the late 1960s, that increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world.
What is the Green Revolution?
a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. They form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environments.
What is an estuary?
the destruction of something, especially waste material, by burning.
What is incineration?
the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water.
What is remediation?
An effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation. On the earth, the effect tends to deflect moving objects to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern and is important in the formation of cyclonic weather systems.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
A tree or shrub that grows in chiefly tropical coastal swamps that are flooded at high tide. They typically have numerous tangled roots above ground and form dense thickets.
What are mangroves?
Element needed for all forms of life.
plays a major role in the structural framework of DNA, RNA, ATP, and cell membranes.
What is phosphorus?
A semi-solid slurry that can be produced from a range of industrial processes, from water treatment, wastewater treatment or on-site sanitation systems. For example, it can be produced as a settled suspension obtained from conventional drinking water treatment, from wastewater treatment processes or from pit latrines and septic tanks.
What is sludge?
manufactured solid plastic particles of less than one millimeter in their largest dimension. They are used in exfoliating personal care products, toothpastes and in biomedical and health-science research.
They can cause plastic particle water pollution and pose an environmental hazard for aquatic animals in freshwater and ocean water.
What are microbeads?
A warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Gas released into the atmosphere from melting permafrost.
What is methane?
the branch of science concerned with the properties of the earth's water, and especially its movement in relation to land.
What is hydrology?
a natural mineral that has been mined and used for centuries because of its durability, heat and chemical resistance. Long considered a “miracle” mineral, asbestos has been utilized in thousands of products, in everything from insulation and other construction materials to car brakes and hair dryers. When people accidentally inhale or ingest the microscopic fibers, the mineral can eventually lead to serious health problems, like mesothelioma
What is asbestos?
A compound that is formed naturally when nitrogen combines with oxygen or ozone. Nitrogen is essential for all living things, but high levels of nitrate in drinking water can be dangerous to health, especially for infants and pregnant women.
What are nitrates?