An increasing problem in many third world countries due to the need for farm land for subsistence farming practices.
What is DEFORESTATION?
100
Gasoline, and gold
What is examples of nonrenewable resources?
100
Tall canopy trees with abundant variety of plants and animals with soils suffering from leaching.
What is a Rainforest Biome?
100
Organic matter made up of dead plants , insects, and roots found on the top layer of soil.
What is humus?
100
Like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio, human settlement patterns and cities in the NE United States have historically been built near these.
What natural resources, particularly iron and coal.
200
An example would be an aqueduct built to transport water from one area to other areas in need, such as farm land.
What is IRRIGATION
200
Water, Soil, Wind Energy, Tidal Energy, and Geothermal energy
What are renewable resources?
200
Many plants are xerophytic, and animals are nocturnal due to the extreme temperatures and arid conditions in this region.
What is Desert Biome?
200
Good, fertile soils with abundant minerals, and found in the Great Plains region of the United States.
What are mollisols?
200
Groundwater, surface water, glaciers and ice caps.
What are the Earth's freshwater sources?
300
This process is important in severely dry and arid regions, such as the Sahara, where freshwater doesn't exist.
What is DESALINATION?
300
Soil, Water, and Cotton
What are renewable resources?
300
A flat, treeless region in which the subsoil stays frozen for most of the year.
What is a Tundra Biome?
300
Leaching, Oxisol soils, home to half of the earth's known species of plants and animals.
What is Tropical Rainforest Biome?
300
Palm trees, rubber trees, and cotton.
What are examples of industrial crops?
400
Technique used by farmers to prevent soil exhaustion.
What is CROP ROTATION?
400
Many cities in the Northeastern United States were originally built near large deposits of this resources.
What iron and coal?
400
Areas of tropical grasslands, scattered trees, and shrubs, and animals such as Zebras, Gazelles, lions, etc.
What is Tropical Savanna Biome?
400
The most abundant of the four gases found in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
400
Rising ocean levels, warming air temperatures worldwide, melting glaciers and ice sheets, greater ocean acidity, and many more storms and much stronger storms.
What are the negative effects of the Greenhouse Effect?
500
Technique used by farmers to prevent top soil from eroding and washing away during times of heavy rainfall.
What is CONTOUR PLOWING?
500
Hydroelectricity, solar panels, windmills, and geothermal energy
What are alternatives to fossil fuels?
500
Found in the 32 degree to 40 degree latitude regions of the world, and plants and animals are resistant to periodic droughts and changing weather conditions.
What is Chaparral Biome?
500
Becoming a vegetarian, reusing shopping bags, checking your tire pressure regularly, and taking a shower instead of a bath.
What are actions or ways people can reduce the negative effects of the Greenhouse Effects?
500
Regions that are natural environments and provide the stage for human activities such as farming, raising livestock, and timber production by the type of precipitation and temperatures prevalent in the region.