Sustainability
Living in a way that allows humans to use resources without depriving future generations.
What is sustainability?
Individual will use shared/public resources in their own self interest degrading them.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
The four systems of the Earth.
What are the lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere.
The 3 basic layers of the Earth.
What are the Core, Mantel and Crust?
O3 and is found in the Stratosphere.
What is Ozone?
The UNM football coach for the current season.
Who is Bronco Mendenhall?
Living factors in the ecosystem?
What are biotic factors?
During the fishing activity, some people had no limits to their fishing. This would be an example of
What is overfishing?
The two types of energy that drive the ecological cycles.
What are the sun and radiation?
The thickest layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
Strong eastward winds located in the tropopause.
What is the Jet Stream?
The singer concluding a major tour and is dating an NFL football player.
Who is Taylor Swift?
The three pillars of sustainability.
What are Environmental, Economic and Social?
The island where all of the statues of heads is located.
Where is Easter Island?
Producers, Consumers (herbivores, carnivores and omnivores) and Decomposers play an essential roll in this sphere.
What is the biosphere
Extreme pressure in the inner core makes the metal ____________.
What is solid?
Solar radiation divided by area. The more perpendicular the Sun's rays the higher this is.
What is Insolation?
The kid that Charlie Brown has a crush on.
Who is the little redheaded girl?
What are: Biological Diversity, Food Production, Average surface temperature, Human Population and Resource depilation?
In the Lorax, this character tried to show what was happening to the animals and the habitat.
Who is the Lorax?
The Big Bang began at this point of infinite temperature and density.
What is a singularity?
The source of weathered material found in soil.
What is the parent rock or parent material?
The type of heat transfer created when warm less dense air rises and cold more dense air sinks.
What is convection?
The green care bear with a four leaf clover.
Who is good luck bear?
The creation, consumption and transfer of wealth.
What is economics?
A decline in biodiversity is an indication that people are ________________ using the resources.
What is overusing?
Has a longer wave length and provides evidence that the universe is expanding.
What is redshift?
The layers of soil are known as ______________.
What are horizons?
The atmospheric circulation pattern located between 30 and 60 degrees latitude in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What are the Ferrel Cells?
The countries Ms Polansky worked in the oil field.
What are Chad Africa and Algeria?
The three goals of sustainable development.
What are Social Equity, Economic Efficiency, and Environmental Responsibility?
A resource that has a fixed amount on the planet is known as a ____________________.
What is a non-renewable source
The age of the universe.
What is 13.8 billion years?
The 5 factors for soil formation.
What are Parent Material, Time, Climate, Plants and Animals and Topography
The three Milankovitch Cycles.
What are obliquity, eccentricity, and precession?
The college Ms Polansky graduated from with her bachelors degree.
What is Texas Tech?