GREEN HOUSE EFFECT
SUSTAINABILITY
ENERGY
POPULATION
POLLUTION
100
The gases in our atmoshphere that trap and radiate heat
What is greenhouse gases
100
Define sustainability
What is the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely?
100
Name a renewable and nonrenewable energy
What is energy from the son (renewable), fossil fuels (nonrenewable)
100
Define Demography
What is the study of populations, but most often refers to the study of human population
100
An undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely effects the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms
What is pollution
200
Describe the greenhouse effect
What is the process in which gases trap heat near the Earth?
200
Define a sustinable world
What is not an unchanging world and uses resources faster than they can be replaced
200
Define a nonrenewable resource
What is a resource that forms at a much slower rate than the rate that it is consumed
200
Describe a developed country.
What is a country that has higher incomes, slower population growth, and diverse industrial economies
200
The two main type of pollutions
What is biodegradable pollutants and nondegradable pollutants
300
The most abundant greenhouse gases
What is water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide?
300
We need help by who to have a sustainable country
What is everyone including individual citizens, industries, and government's cooperation
300
Define a renewable resource
What is resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes
300
Describe a developing country
What is a country that has lower average incomes, simple and agriculture-based economies, and rapid population growth
300
The causes of air pollution
What is mostly because of car exhaust and industrial pollutants
400
The two gases that account for most of the absorption of heat that occurs in the atmosphere
What is water vapor and carbon dioxide
400
define sustainable agriculture
What is farming that conserves natural resources and helps keep the land productive?
400
What do nonrenewable energys cause?
What is pollution
400
This has led to environmental problems around the globe
What is the rapid growth in population in the 20th century
400
One effect of the industrial revolution
What is that societies began to produce wastes faster than the wastes could be disposed of
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