Earth's Systems
The system that contains all life
What is Biosphere?
The amount of different species that live in a particular area or habitat
What is Biodiversity?
The main molecule that causes global warming
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The heating of the planet by humans
What is Climate Change?
The element commonly found through out the planet from life to fossil fuels
What is Carbon?
The system that includes fossil fuels
What is Geosphere?
A community of organisms and their physical environment interacting together.
What are Ecosystems?
The main energy source that also contributes to global warming
What are Fossil fuels?
The unsustainable cutting of forests
What is Deforestation?
The Classification that carbon dioxide takes because it warms the planet up
What is Greenhouse Gas?
The other common name for the geosphere
What is Lithosphere?
A species that has few or not many organisms of it
What are Endangered Species?
The process of trapping heat in the atmosphere to warm up the planet
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
An animal that is harming an ecosystem it was not meant to be in
What are invasive species?
The form of carbon found in the earth used for energy
What are Fossil Fuels?
The part of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer
What is Stratosphere?
The act of preserving or protecting endangered species
What is Conservation?
The treaty that banned Chlorofluorocarbons from being created
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The worst and strongest of the chemicals that cause global warming
What are Chlorofluorocarbons?
The process that gives plants carbon
What is Photosynthesis?
The lowest part of the atmosphere
What is Troposphere?
The abbreviated form of the major factors decreasing biodiversity
What is HIPPCO?
The measurement that is used to measure the impact of greenhouse gasses
What is global warming potential (GWP)?
the greenhouse gas that harms the planet more than Methane but less than CFCs
What is Nitrous Oxide?
The effect caused by high carbon dioxide concentrations in the ocean.
What is Ocean acidification?