Human Impact 1
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The contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life
What is pollution?
Energy produced using sunlight
What is solar energy?
Replacing forests that have been cut down.
What is reforestation?
The contamination of air by harmful substances including gases and smoke from factories or military operations.
What is air pollution?
Invasive species can spread so easily because they don't have _______ _______.
What are natural predators?
What is biodiversity?
Energy produced when moving air turns a turbine.
What is wind energy?
As carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, this will also increase over time.
What is the temperature?
An increase in the Earth's temperature.
What is global warming or climate change?
A type of species that is brought to a new ecosystem and causes major disruptions
What is an invasive species?
When forests are cut down and create habitat loss.
What is deforestation?
Oil, coal, and natural gas are types of this.
What are fossil fuels?
The phenomenon that occurs when gasses like carbon dioxide trap excess heat inside of the planet.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Resources that eventually run out and can not be used forever.
What are nonrenewable resources?
A type of precipitation that occurs when gases from pollution mix with water and fall to the Earth
What is acid rain?
Time period when more people started working in factories, which led to higher fossil fuel use.
Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane gas and water vapor are examples of these.
What are greenhouse gasses?
Resources that do not run out over time.
What are renewable resources?
A long-term average weather condition.
What is climate?
Material from which plastic is made.
What is oil or petroleum?
The development of land for houses and other buildings near a city
What is urbanization?
Energy that is harnessed from heat inside the Earth
What is geothermal energy
The careful use of Earth’s materials to reduce damage to the environment.
What is conservation?