Biomes
This Biome has the smallest seasonal variation in temperature.
What is a Tropical Rainforest?
This term refers to the combination of gasses that result when pollution from car exhaust interacts with ultraviolet light.
What is Photochemical Smog?
Photovoltaic Cells are part of this type of energy production.
What is solar power?
This highly corrosive gas is known for it's yellow color and is used in the treatment of wastewater and drinking water.
What is Chlorine? Also accept Fluorine.
This a-periodic oscillation is driven by the build up and release of thermal energy stored in East Asia.
What is ENSO?
What is a temperate grassland?
This household pollutant is prevalent in New England and results from the decay of underground radioactive elements.
What is radon?
What is fission power?
Famously present in the broad spectrum herbicide known as "Agent Orange", this compound is among the most toxic substances ever discovered.
What is TCDD?
This is the psuedo-force that is largely responsible for the direction of the trade winds.
What is the Coriolis force?
This biome has very cold winters with relatively mild summers and hosts trees with needles rather than leaves.
What is the Taiga?
Often given off by volcanoes or the burning of coal, this gas combines with water to form rain that is substantially more acidic than normal.
What is Sulfur Dioxide.
This type of energy is clean and renewable and boasts uptime that are among the highest of all energy production types. Additional benefits include increased tourism.
This group of compounds is added to plastics to make them more flexible. In humans, it acts as an endocrine disruptor. (Chemical name of the group is required)
What are pthalates?
This current circles the Southern Polar region.
What is the Antartic Circumpolar Current.
Most of the region North of the Arctic Circle is this type of Biome.
What is Tundra
This category of particulate pollutant is a major health concern due to its ability to penetrate relatively deeply into tissues.
What is PM 2.5? (or smaller)
This quantity from physics is much lower for the energy that is received from the sun than it is for the energy the Earth gives off, which results in organisms being able to grow in complexity without violating physical laws.
What is entropy?
Known for its bio-accumulation in marine animals, a normally slightly toxic metal is converted into this very toxic substance by shellfish.
What is methyl-mercury?
This nutrient cycle has no significant atmospheric component and is often the limiting nutrient in ecosystems.
The most prominent example of this biome extends up the Western Coast of the United States from Washington into Alaska.
What is an example of a Temperate Rainforest?
This household and outdoor pollutant is known to produce flu-like symptoms and hypoxia in moderate concentrations
What is CO?
This theoretical power production method would use hydrogen as fuel.
What is fusion power?
These byproducts of the production of non-stick surfaces is known as a "forever chemical" due to its long environmental persistence and biological half life.
What are PFAS?
A global circulation with a timescale of around 100 years.
What is the thermohaline circulation?