EQ's
Name one impact that humans have on the environment.
What is pollution?
What word defines a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an environment?
Name something humans have done to impact the local environment. Hint: involves trees
What is deforestation?
What is one way consumption of natural resources affects the Earth?
What is Depletion of the O-zone layer?
Name the word that defines existing in finite quantity; not capable of being replenished.
What is nonrenewable resources?
The Ice Age is an example of...
What is a cooling trend?
Name the word that defines rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes.
What is acid rain?
What is one way that humans can reverse negative effects on the environment? Hint: involves transportation
What is drive cleaner cars?
Name one positive way humans impact natural resources.
What is replanting?
Name the word that defines the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
What is pollution?
Name one way that human pollutants affect the Earth.
What is global warming?
this is the appearance of unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean
What is El nino
What is one way that humans have impacted the atmosphere? Hint: think Nasa
What is launching space ships?
Name a negative way that humans impact natural resources. Hint: think of a fossil fuel
What is coal mining?
Name the word that defines a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
What are fossil fuels?
Changes in human populations and human impacts have affected the local and global ecosystems in what way.
what is a negative impact?
What word defines a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.
What are invasive species?
What is one impact that humans have on natural resources?
What is depletion?
Name one-way deforestation negatively impacts the areas around it.
What is habitat destruction?
Name the word that defines (of a substance or object) capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms.
What is biodegradable?
Name one way that humans have negatively impacted the global environment.
What is global warming?
Name the word that defines the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.
Name one way that you can start conservation at home?
What is composting?
What is replanting trees?
the study of how natural systems function, remain diverse and produce everything it needs for the ecology to remain in balance is known as
What is sustainability?