Resources
per unit of population
What is per capita
Anything an organism needs that can be taken from the environment.
What is a resource?
What is mitigate?
True or False: Since 2009, the total amount of wetlands has decreased.
False- the total number has increased/
These help slow water flow reducing soil erosion.
What are wetlands?
An inorganic substance that is naturally formed under the ground.
What is a mineral?
Resources not restored or replaced by natural processes over human lifespan.
What are nonrenewable resources?
A resource that is able to be restored or replaced by natural processes during human lifespan.
What are renewable resources?
True or False: Prior to 2015, the amount of SAV acreage met target only 1 time, but has gone above target every year since 2015.
False
The variety and variability of life on Earth.
What is biodiversity?
A kind of oil that comes from below the ground and is the source of gasoline and other products.
What is petroleum?
A broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit are removed
What is surface mining?
A class of pollutants that CANNOT easily be traced to specific source.
What is nonpoint source pollution?
This has increased since 2014.
A species that is not native to a particular area.
What is an invasive or non native species?
What are fossil fuels?
A class of pollutants that can be traced to specific source.
What is point source pollution?
A type of rock that contains metal that can be economically extracted.
What is a metal ore?
Since the early 2000s the amount of these has increased.
What are forest buffers?
Increasing small amounts of wetlands, forested buffers, and/or SAV provide these services including pollution reduction and habitat which could result in large changes in the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem.
What are ecosystem services?
Services provided by organisms or systems within the environment that support populations, regulate and provide stability, or reduce or eliminate pollutants
What are ecosystem services?
Any deposit of insoluble material, primarily rock and soil particles as well as remains of marine organisms that accumulate on the seafloor.
What are marine sediments?
Process of making land, air, and water dirty and safe not or suitable for use.
What is pollution?
Materials or substances such as forests, fertile land, and water that occur in nature and used for economic gain.
What are natural resources?