Ecology
The process that plants use to convert sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the most abundant renewable energy source.
What is solar energy?
The energy source derived from sunlight.
What is solar energy?
Some communities face more pollution than others due to race or income. This is called ___.
What is environmental injustice?
The name for a resource that is shared by a group but is vulnerable to overuse.
What is a commons?
A type of species that has a disproportionately large impact on its ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
This renewable energy source uses the Earth's internal heat.
What is geothermal energy?
What is crop rotation?
This term refers to the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens across all communities.
What is environmental justice?
This term refers to an organism's role in the environment.
What is a niche?
The percentage of energy that is typically transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
This is the term for energy that comes from sources that don’t run out, like wind and sunlight.
What is renewable energy?
The most common material recycled worldwide.
What is paper?
When companies falsely claim their products are "eco-friendly," it’s called ___.
What is greenwashing?
This term describes the gradual increase of toxins in an organism as it consumes contaminated food.
What is bioaccumulation?
The term for the relationship between two organisms where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
The process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide to reduce emissions.
What is carbon capture and storage (CCS)?
This sustainable practice involves using microorganisms to break down waste materials naturally.
What is composting?
This law, passed in 1972, aims to keep America’s rivers and lakes clean.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This name refers to the natural cycle that includes photosynthesis, respiration, and combustion.
What is the carbon cycle?
The maximum population size an environment can support that is often referred to as the "K" in population ecology.
What is carrying capacity?
This law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This country is known for being one of the most advanced in waste recycling and sustainable practices.
What is Sweden?
This 1980s protest in North Carolina is considered one of the key events that launched the U.S. environmental justice movement.
What is the Warren County PCB landfill protest?
This type of species is only found in one specific geographic location and nowhere else.
What is an endemic species?