Graphing
Root Causes
Environmental Issues
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part 2
100

A common method to visually illustrate relationships in the data.

What are Graphs?

100

When a species population exceeds the capacity for the environment to sustain. 

What is Overpopulation?

100

A contagious disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the pandemic.

What is COVID 19?

100

A social movement through which citizens are involved in activism to further the protection of environmental landmarks and natural resources.

What is Environmentalism?

100

Anything obtained from the earth to meet human needs and wants:

Food, water, shelter, manufactured goods, transportation, etc.

What is a Resource?

200

Depicts what the graph is about. A good title is closer to a sentence than a phrase.

What is a title?

200

Not having enough resources to meet one’s needs

What is Poverty?

200

Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, but since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas) which produces heat-trapping gases.

What is Climate Change (Global Warming)? 

200

The study of relationships between living organisms and their environment.

What is Ecology?

200

Exist in a fixed quantity

  • FOSSIL FUELS

  • METALLIC MINERALS

  • NONMETALLIC MINERALS

What is a Nonrenewable Resource? 

300

Variable controlled by the experimenter. This variable goes on the X-axis.

What is the Independent Variable?

300

Value associated with actual deterioration of a natural asset due to economic activities. 

What is Environmental Costs? 

300

A lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life.

What is Food Scarcity?

300

Studies all aspects of the environment in an interdisciplinary way. This means that it requires the knowledge of various other subjects including biology, chemistry, physics, statistics, microbiology, biochemistry, geology, economics, law, sociology, etc.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

What is Environmental Science? 

300

Renewed continuously

  • SOLAR ENERGY

  • WIND, TIDES, FLOWING WATER

What is Inexhaustible Resource? 

400

An important aspect of scientific data reporting as they help readers understand and correctly interpret a figure.

What is a Caption?

400

Minimal contact with nature

Ignorance?!? (lack information)

Where does our food, water, goods, etc. come from?

What is Isolation from Nature?

400

The contamination of water sources by substances which make the water unusable for drinking, cooking, cleaning, swimming, and other activities.

What is Water Pollution?

400

Describes living and nonliving surroundings relevant to organisms. It incorporates physical, chemical and biological factors and processes that determine the growth and survival of organisms, populations, and communities.

What is Environment?

400

Can be replenished fairly rapidly

  • AIR, WATER, SOIL, BIODIVERSITY

What is a Renewable Resource?

500

Line, Histogram, Pie, Scatterplot, and Bar.

What are different types of Graphs?

500

The state of having a great deal of wealth. 

What is Affluence?

500

Form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions.

What is Acid Rain?

500

It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, economics, etc. It is about creating something by thinking across boundaries.

What is Interdisciplinary? 

500

The variety and variability of life on Earth. A measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

What is Biodiversity? 

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