FRESH WATER
The process by which water moves horizontally through the soil, eventually reaching rivers or other water bodies, is called this.
What is throughflow?
Q: The process where affluent people move into older, inner-city neighborhoods, often leading to the renovation of homes and rising property values, is called this.
A: What is gentrification?
Q: This index measures the availability, affordability, and quality of food in different countries.
A: What is the Food Security Index?
Q: These economies, like Brazil or India, are rapidly growing and are classified as being between low-income and high-income countries.
A: What are emerging economies?
Q: This is the term for the proportion of incoming solar radiation that is reflected back into space by surfaces like ice and snow.
A: What is albedo?
This process involves the blending of global brands with local culture to suit regional tastes and preferences.
What is glocalization?
This storage component of the drainage basin consists of underground layers of permeable rock holding water.
What are aquifers?
Q: The phenomenon where cities are significantly warmer than their rural surroundings due to human activities is called this.
A: What is the urban heat island effect?
Q: This term describes the shift from diets high in grains and vegetables to those high in fats, sugars, and animal products, typical in wealthier nations.
A: What is the nutrition transition?
Q: The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime is called this.
A: What is the fertility rate?
Q: This international agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global warming to below 2°C, with efforts to keep it below 1.5°C.
A: What is the Paris Agreement?
This global network aims to provide fair wages to producers in developing countries, especially in the agriculture sector.
What is Fairtrade?
On a hydrograph, this is the time interval between the peak of a storm and the peak river discharge.
What is lag time?
Q: A city that incorporates technology and data-driven solutions to improve efficiency in areas like transportation and energy use is called this.
A: What is a smart city?
Q: This farming method uses stacked layers in urban environments to grow food, promoting sustainable agriculture.
A: What is vertical farming?
Q: This demographic benefit occurs when a country experiences low dependency ratios and a large, youthful working-age population, boosting economic productivity.
A: What is the demographic dividend?
Q: Governments often encourage industries to offset their emissions by engaging in this system, which allows them to buy and sell carbon credits.
A: What is carbon trading?
The dominance of one country’s culture over others, often seen through the global influence of media and brands, is called this.
What is cultural imperialism?
This flood mitigation measure involves planting trees to increase water absorption and decrease runoff.
What is afforestation?
Q: This urban planning strategy focuses on improving the energy efficiency of older buildings and infrastructure to reduce cities' environmental footprints.
A: What is retrofitting?
Q: This term refers to the process by which agricultural innovations or diseases spread from one area to another.
A: What is diffusion?
Q: This type of migration, often seen in Syria or Venezuela, is driven by factors such as war, persecution, or natural disasters.
A: What is forced migration?
Q: This controversial approach involves using technology to deliberately manipulate the Earth's climate, for example by increasing cloud reflectivity.
A: What is geo-engineering?
A strategy where companies bring production back to their home country to reduce risks in global supply chains is known as this.
What is reshoring?
An international agreement aimed at the protection of wetlands, signed in 1971, is called this.
What is the Ramsar Convention?
Q: This type of population movement involves people leaving cities for surrounding suburban or rural areas.
A: What is suburbanization or counter-urbanization?
Q: This global index measures and ranks hunger levels, often used to highlight disparities in food access.
A: What is the Global Hunger Index?
Q: Countries like Japan or Germany, with shrinking populations, often implement this type of policy to encourage more births.
A: What are pro-natalist policies?
Q: This term describes the temporary reduction of solar radiation reaching the Earth, often following a volcanic eruption.
A: What is global dimming?
Civil society organizations use this approach to gather ideas and solutions from large groups of people to address global challenges.
What is crowd-sourcing?
The hydraulic radius of a river is calculated by dividing the cross-sectional area by this other measurement.
What is the wetted perimeter?
Q: The cycle in which poverty and lack of opportunities pass from one generation to the next, reinforcing deprivation in certain urban areas, is called this.
A: What is the cycle of deprivation?
Q: This global transition explains the shift from infectious diseases to chronic diseases as a society develops economically.
A: What is the epidemiological transition?
Q: This type of societal transition occurs when a country moves from high birth and death rates to lower rates, significantly changing its population structure.
A: What is demographic transition?
Q: These biological communities, defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, are shifting in spatial distribution due to changing temperatures and precipitation patterns.
A: What are biomes?
This term refers to the strong loyalty to one’s own social group or community, often leading to division and conflict in the face of globalization and cultural diversity. It can manifest in political movements and social identities that resist integration with broader society.
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What is tribalism?