Pop Goes the Planet
The global humann population is expected to decline in the next 50 years
What is False?
The key characteristic of renewable energy
That it will renew in our lifetime
Which is NOT a source of water pollution? A) Agricultural runoff B) Natural springs C) Industrial waste D) Urban runoff
The term for an underground layer of rock or soil saturated with water
What is an aquifer?
A primary effect of climate change
What are rising global temperatures, accelerated sea-level rise, shrinking glaciers, and more intense extreme weather events like droughts, floods, and wildfires?
In billions, the human population today is approximately...
What is 8 billion?
Give at least two examples of fossil fuels
What are natural gas, coal, fossil fuels?
A human impact of air pollution
What are health issues due to poor air quality?
Minerals are always...
What are of a specific chemical composition, inorganic, non-renewable?
Category of gases contributes to global warming due to this effect
What are greenhouse gases?
Human population even though there has been a decrease in the total fertility rate
What is an increase?
Fossil fuels are currently abundant and relatively inexpensive, but using them causes _________________, land degradation, and atmospheric warming.
What is air pollution?
An oil spill is this kind of pollution
What is a point-source or toxic pollutant?
Globally, MOST fresh water used by humans is for this purpose
What is agricultural irrigation?
The sea level is _______ as a result of climate change
What is rising?
A result of overcrowding in urban areas
More spread of diseases, more pollution, more traffic
A major disadvantage of nonrenewable energy sources.
They will run out
Temperature inversion promotes smog formation by...
What is when there is a flip in temperatures (hot on top of cold instead of cold on top) and pollution gets trapped at the ground level
In a model of an aquifer, you need to represent this material that holds water
What is an impermeable layer like clay?
Climate change will affect future food security for this reason
Crop yields will lower, increasing prices
This factor has contributed most to the exponential human population growth
What are advancements in medicine?
Which renewable energy source generates electricity by converting kinetic energy from wind into mechanical power?
Wind energy
This determines if a substance is considered a pollutant (3 options)...
What are the concentration (amount), location, and amount of risk/harm?
Depletion time is...
What is the time it will take for a certain mineral resource to be used completely?
Ozone is a benefit to humans in _________ layer of the atmosphere and can harm in the _____________ layer of the atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere (higher in the atmosphere) and troposphere (ground level atmosphere)?