Vocabulary
Process that removes salt from seawater in order to provide freshwater.
What is Desalination?
The number 1 energy resource consumed in the United States.
What is Petroleum/Oil?
An important resource for agriculture, transportation, recreation, and numerous other human activities.
What is Fresh Water?
When carbon dioxide and other air pollutants are released into the air, the Earth warms, which is known as this.
What is Global Warming/Greenhouse Effect.
A population will undergo exponential growth in it's ecosystem until it hits this.
What is Carrying Capacity?
Resources that exist in Earth’s crust in a fixed amount and can be replaced in hundreds of millions of years.
What are Nonrenewable Resources?
A popular fuel source for humans for thousands of years.
What is wood?
A natural resource that can be mined for a profit.
What is Ore?
Each person in the United States generates this much solid waste per day.
What is 2.0 kg (4.4lbs)?
Where all of Earth's energy comes from.
What is the Sun?
Substance that enters Earth’s geochemical cycles and can harm the health of living things.
What is a Pollutant?
The most abundant fossil fuel.
What is Coal?
This material can be used for the construction of buildings, monuments, flooring, countertops, and fireplaces.
What is bedrock?
This can occur when too many grazing animals are kept in arid lands, or when trees and shrubs are cut down for use as fuel.
What is Desertification?
A group of individuals that can reproduce fertile offspring.
What is a Species?
Mixture of sand, gravel, and crushed stone that accumulates naturally.
What is aggregate?
Energy produced by Earth’s naturally occurring heat, steam, and hot water.
What is Geothermal Energy?
The largest source of freshwater for human use and consumption.
What is Groundwater?
This type of air pollution is a yellow-brown haze, formed mainly from automobile exhaust in the presence of sunlight.
What is photochemical Smog?
A network of feeding interactions, through which both energy and matter move.
What is a Food Web?
Global management of natural resources to ensure that future energy needs will be met without harming the environment.
What is Sustainable Energy?
An expensive yet clean way of producing electricity that does not release carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.
What is Nuclear Energy/Fission?
The two types of mining.
What are surface mining and Underground (subsurface) mining?
In the early 1970s, scientists suggested that these molecules could destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
The trophic levels.
What are: Primary Producer (Autotroph), Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, and Tertiary Consumer?