Security
Define food security.
The 2 terms to describe the origin of a pollutant.
What is point source and non-point source pollution?
Define precipitation.
What is the release of water, in any form, from clouds above Earth's surface?
Describe overpopulation.
What is when the population exceeds carrying capacity?
What is the troposphere?
Define water security.
What is the ability to access a sufficient quantity of clean water to maintain adequate standards of food and manufacturing of goods, adequate sanitation and sustainable health care?
The human activity contributes the greatest to atmospheric pollution.
What is combustion?
The two ways that leads to condensation of water.
Evaporation and transpiration.
Define the enhanced greenhouse effect.
What is the artificial release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
Layer where ozone is found.
What is the stratosphere?
Outline 3 causes of food insecurity.
What is water shortages, land degradation, agricultural pests and diseases, population growth, production of biofuels, poverty, price-setting, climate change, and unsustainable production (homogeneous crops)?
Outline 3 ways pollutants affect marine environments.
What is pH levels, turbidity, and the absorption/consumption of toxic chemicals?
State 3 "spheres" where water is found. (excluding hydrosphere)
What is the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and cryosphere?
3 choices that species have when they lose their habitat.
What is adapt, relocate, or die?
Percentages of elements in the atmosphere.
78% Nitrogen
20.9% Oxygen
1% Argon
.1% ETC
Give a strategy for managing energy security.
What is the increase of energy efficiency (ex. housing insulation), improved technology, and increased energy production?
Give an example of waste management facilities.
The difference between groundwater flow and throughflow.
Give one possible solution to slow the growth rate of a population.
What is providing higher quality education, government legislation, economic incentive for fewer children, limitations on immigration, and propaganda?
3 main greenhouse gases.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor?
Give 3 causes of energy insecurity.
What is a growing population, old and dated technology, availability of resources, climate change, and lack of action/awareness?
The risks/negatives of landfills.
There are various health and environmental risks such as leachate which is acidic fluid, contaminated with heavy metals, toxic chemicals and biological waste. Leachate results in the pollution of ground and surface water.
Outline 3 types of aquifers.
Give 3 reasons why populations vary across regions.
What is the climate, available resources, economic standing, human conflict, and political factors?
Very harmful substances that last for a short time in relation to Carbon Dioxide.
What are CFC's/HFC's?