Human Activity
Clearing forests for agriculture, human development, disrupts habitats which contribute to climate change and biodiversity loss
What is Deforestation
A tool that is often bought to help alert if there is a gas leak in a home
What is a Carbon Monoxide Detector
A type a resource that will never run out and can consistently reproduce over a short period of time
What is a Renewable Resource
The act that protects Human and environmental health by improving air quality
What is the Clean Air Act
Material that is discarded because it is no longer needed or is unusable
What is waste
The amount of carbon dioxide that an individual or group is responsible for producing
What is Carbon Footprint
A type of disease that can be spread between people
What is Communicable
A renewable source that converts the sun‘s energy emissions to generative power.
What is solar energy
The international protocol that cut the usage of CFC’s in order to heal the ozone layer
What is the Montreal Protocol
This keeps harmful material from interacting with the ground (recycling can also help lessen waste buildup in this area)
What is a landfill
The largest unregulated source of hazardous waste
What are Households
Poisoning from older paint and pipes that can cause significant damage to the body
What is lead poisoning
The most abundant fossil fuel
What is Coal
The international agreement that limits global climate change to 2 degrees Celsius
What are the Paris Accords
This process helps save natural resources and can reduce pollution
What is recycling
Describes gases like CO2 and methane that trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and air increased by burning fossil fuels
What are Greenhouse Gases
Tiny particles and droplets in the air often from vehicle exhaust and industrial processes that penetrate into the lungs
What is particulate matter
The nonrenewable energy source that is currently growing in popularity in the U.S.
What is Natural Gas
This type of regulation sets a legal limit on how much pollution a factory or power plant can emit air or water
What is Emissions Standard
What is the biological decomposition of organic waste into nutrient-rich soil.
What is composting
The average American household produces this amount (in lbs) of municipal solid waste each year
What is 1,643 lbs
(will also take ~1,600)
The former industrial site that was turned into a residential area where several people suffered from illness as a result of its prior usage
What is Love Canal
This describes how many individuals of a species an environemnt can support over time based on available food, water, space, and other resources
What is Carrying Capacity
Market-based policy tool sets a cap on emissions and allows companies to buy and sell allowances
What is Cap and Trade System
One challenge people face with recycling when different materials need to be sorted?
What is contamination or improper sorting