Unit 1
The continent we are currently on
What is North America
N=n1xn2/m
WHat is the lincon index formula?
The lack of sufficient water to be distributed across an geographical area
A gas that majority can be found in landfills.
What is methane?
A state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and other essentials for a minimum standard of living
What is Poverty?
A cycle consisting of condensation, precipitation, infiltration, transpiration, evaporation.
What is the water cycle?
young population(0-14) - old population(65+) x 100/populated age (15-64)
What is the dependency ratio formula?
The act of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products
What is recycling?
The process of the earth warming up or cooling down, in long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
What is climate change?
The process of the polar ice caps melting down causing a shift in sea level rise.
Whats is the melting of polar ice caps?
An economy with a GNI per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method, of $1,135 or less
What is a LIC
What is a LIC population pyramid
The uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price.
What is energy security?
biofuels (biomass including wood, bioethanol and biogas), geothermal energy, hydroelectric dams, tidal energy, wave energy, solar energy, wind energy
What are renewable energy sources?
When one improperly cleans themselves or their hands, which in turn makes food not good.
What is poor sanitation?
The region where the ozone layer is located.
What is the stratosphere?
D=1-(En(n-1)/N(N-1)
What is the simpson index formula?
The building up of certain gases in the atmosphere and warm the climate,
What is the release of greenhouse gases?
Located from the Antarctic region in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North America and South America on the east.
What is the Pacific Ocean
A frame used in ecology, geography, and biology to isolate a standard unit of area for study of the distribution of an item over a large area.
What is a quadrat?
In Arosal Cans
Where are CFCS located?