Vocabulary
a mixture of fog and smoke or other pollutants
What is smog?
This is one of the major greenhouse gases
What is water vapor?
This human activity creates electricity and a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
What is burning fossil fuels?
This mining technique relies on mountain top removal, panning, and strip mining
What is surface mining?
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This describes the migration of people living in rural areas to cities
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What is urbanization?
Harsh pollutants like sulfuric acid and nitric acid mix with precipitation
What is acid rain?
A small shrimp ingests some plankton with DDT in their body
What is bioaccumulation?
These are the most important greenhouse gases
What is water vapor and carbon dioxide?
An acre of trees were cut down leaving the soil exposed. Over time the land became unproductive and could not grow any more trees
What is desertification?
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This describes the ocean becoming more acidic during to an increase in carbon dioxide sinks
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What is ocean acidification?
After companies are done mining they often do this thanks to this 1977 law
What is mine reclamation?
While on his morning walk, Johnny sees a factory throwing out waste directly in the nearby river
What is point source pollution?
This process helps the earth keep its warmth by using greenhouse gases to trap the suns rays.
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What is the greenhouse effect?
This horizon has the most biological activity
What is A horizon?
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This term shares the effects of harmful contaminants in the air, water, land, and organisms
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What is pollution?
This banned pesticide can be found accumulating in the bodies of organisms in an ecosystem. These amount can be found at higher levels in high trophic level organisms
What is biomagnification?
When creating potable water, these steps are the most important in the water treatment process
What is a Filtration and Disinfection?
This banned man-made chemical is responsible for depleting the ozone layer
What are Chlorofluorocarbons?
Organic matter, rocks, and minerals create this
What is soil/ soil formation?
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These are the 4 greenhouse gases
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What is Carbon dioxide, Water Vapor, Methane, and Nitrogen Dioxide?
The deterioration of lakes due to an increase in nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. Algal blooms feed off the nutrients, forming a blanket on top of the water and killing all organisms due to a lack of oxygen and sunlight
What is eutrophication?
What is non-point source pollution?
The increase in the earth's temperature due to increased greenhouse gases and depleted ozone layer
What is global warming?
A farmer only grows corn on his land. Because of this, he only uses certain chemical fertilizers and knows the exact of water his crops need
What is monoculture?
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9+10
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What is 21?