Pollution
This type of pollution comes from car exhaust and factory smoke and makes it hard to breathe.
What is air pollution?
The variety of all living things in an area, like plants, animals, and bacteria.
What is biodiversity?
The long-term change in Earth’s usual weather, like warmer temperatures and different rainfall.
What is climate change?
When places where animals and plants live are destroyed and some species disappear, this impact on ecosystems occurs.
What is habitat loss and species extinction?
Three simple actions meaning use less, use again, and turn waste into new things.
What is Reduce, reuse, recycle?
Chemicals, sewage, and plastic in rivers or oceans cause this kind of pollution that can kill fish.
What is water pollution?
This type of biodiversity means the number of different species in a place (for example, many kinds of birds).
What is species diversity?
These gases, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat in the atmosphere and cause warming.
What are greenhouse gases?
When the order of who eats whom in nature changes, causing some animals to become too many and others too few.
What is disrupted food chains?
Laws and agreements between countries that protect the environment, like rules to limit pollution.
What are environmental laws and international agreements?
This pollution happens when harmful waste or chemicals spoil the ground and make it harder forplants to grow.
What is soil pollution?
When forests are cut down or wetlands are filled, this main cause of biodiversity loss occurs.
What is habitat loss?
A natural place like a forest or ocean that absorbs and stores carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is called this.
What is a carbon sink?
When soil loses nutrients and cannot grow healthy plants, harming animals that eat those plants.
What is soil infertility?
Planting trees and creating protected areas to help nature recover and save species.
What are reforestation and conservation projects?
his type of pollution includes loud traffic or construction noise that can disturb people and animals.
What is noise pollution?
A cause of biodiversity loss where animals or plants from another place arrive and out compete local species.
What are invasive species?
Two effects of climate change are melting ice and this change to sea levels.
What is rising sea levels?
When ocean temperatures rise and corals lose their color and many marine animals die, this is called this.
What is coral bleaching and marine life death?
Farming methods and technologies that protect soil, water, and nature while producing food.
What is sustainable agriculture and eco-friendly technologies?
Excess artificial light that affects animals and makes it difficult to see the stars is called this.
What is light pollution?
Name two ecosystem services that biodiversity provides which are harmed when biodiversity is lost.
What are food and clean water? (also accept: medicines, materials, protection fromfloods, or ecosystem balance)
Name three impacts of climate change on people and nature mentioned in the definition.
What are harm to crops, increased health risks, and flooding/damage to homes? (alsoaccept: changes to ecosystems, water supply problems, more extreme weather)
Name one way climate change can change the timing of natural events (like flowering or migration)and explain why this can harm ecosystems.
What is seasonal shifts (e.g., flowers bloom earlier or animals migrate later), whichcauses mismatches between animals and their food sources?
Switching from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and other clean sources to reduce green house gases.
What is renewable energy adoption?