Aquatic
The process of when the water is to warm, corals will expel the algae living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white
What is coral bleaching?
The High risk of extinction in future
What is HIPPCO?
the following laws was created because of Love Canal
What is CERLA?
The bacteria that actually digest the plant matter into simpler sugars
What is Fermentation?
The disease caused by a plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.
What is Malaria?
the formation of new ocean crust as a result of magma pushing upward and outward from earth's mantle to the surface
What is sea floor spreading
This occurs when a warm inversion layer traps emissions that then accumulate beneath it
What are thermal Inversions
This sets limits and goals to reduce mobile sources of air pollution
What is the Clean Air Act?
Where the vast majority of hens are raised; rows and columns of small, identical cages
What are battery cages?
The contagious and sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus.
What is SARS?
the largest aquifer in the united states
What is the ogallala aquifer?
the following chemicals cause acid deposition
What is Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen oxide?
Federal law establishing a goal where water was to be fit for swimming and fishing by 1983. Banned polluted discharge from citizens into water.
What is the clean water act?
Generations of breeding artificial selection, has resulted in domesticated animals growing larger and produce more food; but now more dependent on us to grow
What is the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO)?
The Middle East respiratory syndrome is a contagious, sometimes fatal respiratory illness. It's often spread through close contact with an infected person.
What is MERS?
Precipitation high in sulphuric acid and nitric acid from reactions between sulphur dioxide and water vapour and nitrogen oxides and water vapour in the atmosphere
What is acid rain?
Without it, earth's temperature would be much colder; earths atmosphere, clouds, land, ice, and water absorbs 70% of incoming solar radiation
What is the Atmosphere?
This Regulates trade and makes sure threaten species will survive. Protects endangered species
What is the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species?
When raising fish for purpose of harvesting, usually in pools/sectioned off water environment
What is aquaculture?
The serious infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs.
What is tuberculosis?
The hypoxic zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is an area along the Louisiana-Texas coast, where water near the bottom of the Gulf contains less than two parts per million of dissolved oxygen, causing a condition referred to as hypoxia
What is the deadzone?
Warm the lower atmosphere; atmospheric gases that absorb infrared radiation: water, vapor, ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs); differ in their ability to warm troposphere and surface
What are greenhouse gases?
Negate ozone depleting substances
What is the montreal protocol?
species with a broad niche that can tolerate a wide range of conditions and can use a variety of resources
What are Generalist?
This disease is caused by the exposure to asbestos
What is mesothelioma?