Climate Change
This greenhouse gas is released when fossil fuels are burned.
What is carbon dioxide?
These energy resources can naturally replace themselves over a short period of time.
What are renewable resources?
These are large pieces of Earth’s crust that move slowly over time.
What are tectonic plates?
This is the maximum population size an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
This is an underground layer of rock or sediment that stores groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
This is what happens to global temperatures when carbon dioxide levels increase.
What is global temperatures usually rise?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of this type of energy resource.
What are nonrenewable resources?
This type of boundary occurs where two plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
These factors, such as food, water, space, and disease, control population size.
What are limiting factors?
This farming practice means growing the same crop repeatedly in the same area.
What is monocropping?
Carbon dioxide is considered a greenhouse gas because it does this in the atmosphere.
What is traps heat?
Solar and wind energy are generally more sustainable because they produce less of this type of pollution.
What are greenhouse gas emissions?
This type of boundary occurs where two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
This type of population growth starts slowly, rises quickly, and forms a J-shaped curve.
What is exponential growth?
This farming practice helps soil health by planting different crops in different seasons.
What is crop rotation?
Melting ice sheets contribute to this environmental problem.
What is rising sea levels?
Solar energy may not be the best choice in a region that lacks this.
What is sunlight?
Trenches are often formed when one tectonic plate does this beneath another plate.
What is subducts?
Producers are important because they bring this into the food web through photosynthesis.
What is energy?
Fertilizer runoff can cause excess algae growth, which may lead to this low-oxygen area in water.
What is a dead zone?
Water vapor is considered a positive feedback mechanism because warming causes more evaporation, which leads to this.
What is more water vapor trapping more heat and increasing warming?
Recycling helps conserve natural resources because it reduces the need for this process.
What is extracting or mining new raw materials?
Mountain ranges can form when two continental plates collide at this type of boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
A long drought that reduces plant growth can affect the whole food web because fewer producers means this.
What is less energy available for consumers?
Irrigation can cause soil salinization when water evaporates and leaves this behind in the soil.
What is salt?