Climate Change
What greenhouse gas is produced in large amounts when burning fossil fuels?
What is carbon dioxide?
What organisms break down dead organic matter and recycle nutrients back into ecosystems?
What are decomposers?
What renewable energy source uses moving air to generate electricity through turbines?
What is wind energy?
what process occurs when excess nutrients cause algal blooms and low oxygen levels in water
what is eutrophication?
what practice involves replanting trees in areas where forest were removed
What is reforestation?
What international agreement aimed to take out substances that depleted the ozone layer?
What is the Montreal Protocol?
This type of species has a disproportionately large effect on its ecosystem compared to its population size?
What is a keystone species?
What nonrenewable energy source is formed from ancient marine life buried under heat and pressure?
What is petroleum?
what process by which water vapor cools and forms clouds is part of the water cycle
what Is condensation?
What type of waste includes items like discarded electronics, batteries, and old computers
what is e-waste?
What air pollutant forms when nitrogen oxides and VOCs react in sunlight?
What is ground-level ozone?
What species are not native to an ecosystem and often cause environmental harm?
What is an invasive species?
What renewable resource uses the heat from within the earth to generate energy?
What is geothermal energy?
what process happens when groundwater is pumped faster than it can naturally recharge
What is aquifer depletion?
What law in the United States regulates the six major criteria air pollutants
what is the clean air act?
What is acid rain?
This term refers to the variety of life found within an ecosystem, biome, or the entire planet?
What is Biodiversity?
What energy source uses sunlight to produce electricity through photovoltaic cells?
What is solar energy?
what farming practice helps reduce soil erosion by plowing along the natural shape of land
what is contour plowing?
what process converts atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form for plants
what is nitrogen fixation?
What layer of the Earth's atmosphere contains the ozone layer that protects us from UV radiation?
What is the stratosphere?
What unit is commonly used to measure Biodiversity by counting the number of different species in an area?
What is species richness?
what fossil fuel produces the most carbon dioxide per unit of energy when burned.
what is coal?
What phenomenon occurs when warm water prevents nutrient-rich cold water from rising to the surface
what is thermal stratification?
What biome is characterized by low rainfall, sparse vegetation, and extreme temperatures
what is desert?