Enviro Systems
The part of the water cycle where condensed atmospheric water vapor becomes heavy and falls.
What is precipitation.
Power generated when photovoltaic cells capture light energy.
What is solar power?
This is the classification of a species being threatened by extinction.
What is an endangered species?
True or False: The Carbon Cycle involves all of Earth's spheres: geo, bio, hydro, and atmospheres.
What is true?
Three R's of conservation.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
Evaporation turns liquid water into ________.
What is water vapor?
Resources that exist in a fixed amount and cannot be easily replaced.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
This is a species not in its native habitat that harms native species.
What is an invasive species?
True or False: The Greenhouse Effect allows heat or infrared energy from Earth's surface to pass directly out through the atmosphere and back into space.
What is False?
meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
What is sustainability?
Give three examples of precipitation
What is snow, rain, sleet, hail, etc.
Energy that is generated when kinetic energy is turned into mechanical energy from the spinning of a turbine.
What is wind energy?
Country that produces the most carbon dioxide in total annually.
What is China?
True or False: Leaving electronic devices plugged in or on standby when you are not using them increases your carbon footprint.
True
Three ways air pollution can harm human health.
What is headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, reduced lung function, increased asthma attack, chest tightness, shortness of breath, irritation of throat, coughing, and irritation of eyes and nose.
Water that flows from land to lower elevation place. It occurs when there is more water than the land can aborb.
What is runoff?
The process through which nuclear power is generated.
What is nuclear fission?
Name three ways climate change is affecting oceans.
What is ocean warming, coral bleaching, sea ice melting, ocean acidification, etc.
How long does carbon dioxide stay in the atmosphere once it has been emitted?
The largest use of human freshwater goes towards this.
The source of the energy that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
This energy requires a chemical reaction with hydrogen in order to create an electric current inside of a cell.
What is a hydrogen fuel cell?
This is the words making the acronym HIPPCO(factors that lead to a decrease in diversity).
What is habitat destruction, invasive species, population growth, pollution, climate change, and over exploitation?
By about how much has the Earth's global surface temperature increased over the past 100 years?
How much is 0.6 degrees Celsius (1.4 F)?
a law that sets limits on the amount of certain pollutants that can be released in the air
What is the Clean Air Act?