Definitions
Biotic Factors
What are all living factors on earth called?
A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed.
What is a renewable resource?
The day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere, including temperature, precipitation, and other factors.
What is weather?
Root word for earth.
What is geo?
The Human cause of Global warming
What is industrialization?
abiotic factors
What are nonliving factors on earth called?
A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame.
What is a non-renewable resource?
Overall weather in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Root word for air.
What is atmo?
The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support a person or population.
What is an Ecological Footprint?
release of harmful substances onto the earth
What is pollution?
Greenhouse gases are created when these are burned.
What are fossil fuels?
An increase in Earth's average temperature?
What is global climate change?
Root word for water.
What is hydro?
When a shared, limited resource to become depleted because people act from self-interest.
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
Known as the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
What is the environment?
The most environmentally damaging non-renewable resource.
What is coal?
An interaction between ocean temperature and atmosphere that has major effects on weather worldwide.
What is El Niño?
Root word for living.
What is bio?
Overfishing has reduced the Pacific bluefin tuna to approximately three percent of its historical levels is an example of
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not impact resource use in the future.
What is sustainability?
The most efficient renewable resource.
What is hydropower?
The impact of melting glaciers on the ocean.
What are rising sea levels?
The two spheres involved when a person drinks water.
What are biosphere and hydrosphere?
What is the Industrial Revolution?