Population
What is a population?
What is "all members of a species that live in the same area and interact with one another"?
What does it mean when a resource is "nonrenewable"?
What is "when a resource cannot be replaced as quickly as it is used? The resource will eventually run out"?
What does it mean when a resource is "renewable"?
Name at least two steps of the water cycle that adds water vapor to the atmosphere.
What is "evaporation, transpiration, and sublimation"?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What does the "fertility" rate refer to?
What is "birth rate"?
Where does nuclear energy come from?
What is "splitting atoms"?
Where does biomass energy come from?
What is "plants and animals"?
Where is most of the water on our planet found?
What is "the oceans"?
Explain the greenhouse effect.
What is "when gases in the atmosphere trap heat and make our Earth warmer as a result"?
What does an exponential growth curve look like?
Draw
What are the two types of mines?
What is subsurface mining and what is surface mining?
Why is biomass considered renewable but not infinite?
What are the four types of irrigation?
What is the greenhouse gas that is 300x more powerful than carbon dioxide?
What is "nitrous oxide"?
Is a developing country more likely to have a rapid growth, stable growth, or negative growth population pyramid?
what is "Rapid Growth"?
What does fracking extract?
What is natural gas?
Why is tidal energy super reliable?
What is "because tides come and go at the same time every day"?
What causes eutrophication?
What is "when excess nutrients are added to a body of water"?
What greenhouse gas destroys the ozone layer?
What is "CFCs"?
(chlorofluorocarbons)
What does each variable represent in the following formula?
growth = (b+i) - (d+e)
b = birth rate
i = immigration
d = death
e = emigration
What are some environmental impacts of mining?
what is noise and air pollution; water pollution; habitat degradation; erosion; etc.
What is "solar thermal uses direct heat from the sun to heat homes or water while solar photovoltaic uses the sun's energy to create electricity"?
What are the effects of eutrophication?
What is "decreased oxygen in the water, algal growth, plant and animal death, murky water, less photosynthesis, etc."?
What characteristics (warm, cold, humid, dry) does a mT (maritime tropical) air mass have?
What is "warm and humid"?