Impact on Climate
Long term average weather conditions.
What is climate
Contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life
What is pollution
What is deforestation?
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use
This increases the pH of lakes and other bodies of water.
What is acid precipitation
A rise in Earth's average surface temperature
What is Global Warming
The development of land near a city, which leads to an increase in runoff.
What is urbanization
How are living things affected by deforestation?
There is a loss of habitat which can lead to declining populations and even extinction.
How does planting trees help reduce carbon dioxide levels?
They take in Co2 and release oxygen via photosynthesis.
A decrease in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere change Earth's average surface temperature?
It would lower the surface temperature
The natural process that occurs when certain gases in the atmosphere absorb and reradiate thermal energy from the sun.
What is the Greenhouse Effect
The cutting of large areas of forests for human activities, which leads to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What is deforestation
What has been happening to the size of the Amazon rain forest over the past 50 years?
What is shrinking
What is urbanization?
What is the development of land houses and other buildings near a city.
The 3 main fossil fuels
Oil, coal, and natural gas
The most important of the greenhouse gases
What is carbon dioxide
Another term for farming, which leads to many forms of pollution from runoff
What is agriculture
How do forests contribute to the removal of greenhouse gases?
They respirate by exchanging Co2 for oxygen
What is an impact of pesticide usage?
Pesticides can increase the amount of food grown
The thinning of the ozone layer leads to more of this in the atmosphere
Ultraviolet radiation (UV)
Global trends in warming, cooling, precipitation, wind directions, and other related measures.
What is Climate Change
This is the replanting of forests, which leads to a decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What is reforestation.
What is a consequence of deforestation
What is leads to loss of animal habitat, less carbon dioxide is being reduced from the atmosphere.
What purpose are rain forests primarily being cut down for?
Deforestation, urbanization, agriculture, and the building of landfills all leads to a loss of.....
What is biodiversity