Managing human population
What term describes the number of people per unit of area?
What is population density?
What is the first step in the scientific method?
What is making an observation?
What type of resource is solar energy?
What is the renewable resource?
What is energy insecurity?
What is not having access to energy and energy resources for the people?
Which greenhouse gas is released by burning fossil fuels?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is one major method governments use to control population growth?
What is family planning, birth policies/regulations etc.?
What are the three types of variables in an experiment?
What is an independent variable, dependent variable and control variable?
What type of resource is fossil fuels?
What is non-renewable?
What is overfishing an example of?
What is the overexploitation of a natural resource?
What is the layer of the atmosphere that protects us from UV radiation?
What is the term for the maximum population size an environment can sustain indefinitely?
What is carrying capacity?
What kind of model do scientists use to research the climate?
What is Climate models?
What is sustainability?
What is meeting current needs without compromising future generations ability to meet their needs?
Name one major method used in sustainable agriculture.
What is crop rotation, hydroponics, agroforestry, etc.?
What are two greenhouse gases?
What are carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, etc.?
what is the measure of the number of dependent people compared to the working-age population in a country or region?
What is the dependency ratio?
What type of sampling uses random locations within a study area?
What is random sampling?
What is one method governments can use to reduce industrial pollution.
What is regulating emissions, imposing fines, or promoting cleaners technology?
What is desalination used for?
What is converting seawater into freshwater?
What is one natural process found in plants that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
What is photosynthesis?
What are 2 problems caused by rapid urbanization?
What are overcrowding and pollution?
What is the purpose of using control variables in an environmental experiment .
What is to ensure that the results are only due to the independent variable being tested?
What is the term for resorting damaged ecosystems?
What is ecological restoration?
what are two causes of water insecurity?
What are economic issues, droughts, etc?
What is one negative effect of acid rain?
What is damage to buildings, crops and flora, people and health issues, etc.?