Vocab
the cutting, clearing and removal of
trees in a forest
Deforestation
A surface mining technique in which explosives are used to remove large areas of mountaintops in order to access underlying coal seams
Mountaintop removal
A substance or thing in the environment that has harmful or poisonous effects
Pollution
What is mountaintop removal?
A surface mining technique in which explosives are used to remove large areas of mountaintops in order to access underlying coal seams
What is a pro of deforestation?
Clears area for farming
obtain wood to sell
clear areas for mining
any physical environmental item that
people perceive to be useful
Natural Resources
A disagreement struggle or class of power, property, resources, etc.
Conflict
Usable power that comes from heat, electricity, motion, etc.
Energy
What is a con of mountaintop removal?
Deforestation
Mountains removed
creeks are buried
What is a con of deforestation?
Ruins animal habitats
effects air quality
Energy created using water
hydropower
Someone who has been forced to leave a country because of war or religious or political reasons
Refugee
A natural source that stores potential energy and that is formed from the remains of once living organisms
Fossil Fuels
What is happening to the Ozone layer?
The ozone layer is thinning
What was one cause of the drying of the Aral Sea?
Drought
Water Diversion
A signed agreement between two or more countries
treaty
A mixture of wet and dry deposited material from the atmosphere containing higher than normal amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids
Acid Rain
Natural resources that Earth or people can replace
Renewable natural resources
What is a pro of mountaintop removal?
cheaper
Allows for almost a complete recovery of coal seams
What was one effect of the drying of the Aral Sea?
fisheries collapsed
water was salty and polluted
blowing dust
dust ruined crop fields
colder winters and hotter summers
A gas that occurs naturally in our atmosphere
Ozone
Natural resources that cannot be replaced in a relatively short period of time
Non-renewable natural resources
The geographic theme that explores how people use, adapt to, and modify the environment
Human- environmental interaction
Why should we be concerned with a thinning ozone layer?
It lets through more harmful UV rays which causes the Earth to warm up (Global Warming)
What are some countries doing to protect the Ozone?