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Definitions I
Definitions II
100
EPA
What is Environmental Protection Agency
100
IPCC
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
100
UNFCCC
What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
100
The amount of a given activity that can be accommodated within the environmental capacity of a defined area
What is Carrying Capacity
100
Defining Earth's most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans.
What is Anthropocene
200
NGO
What is a Non-Governmental Organization
200
USF&WS
What is the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
200
AMD
What is Acid Mine Drainage
200
A phenomenon caused by a series of gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) that absorb part of the energy, while the remainder escapes into space.
What is the Greenhouse Effect
200
A biochemical process by which atmospheric carbon is absorbed by living organisms, including trees, soil microorganisms, and crops, and involving the storage of carbon in soils, with the potential to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
What is Carbon Sequestration
300
NOAA
What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
300
UNEP
What is the United Nations Environment Program
300
CFC
What is chlorofluorocarbon
300
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
What is Sustainable Development
300
Structural and non-structural measures undertaken to limit the adverse impact of natural hazards, environmental degradation and technological hazards
What is Mitigation
400
ODNR
What is the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
400
SDGs
What is Sustainable Development Goals
400
CSD
What is the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
400
Long-term changes in the climate of the Earth, a region, or a city, which includes warming, cooling and changes besides temperature
What is Climate Change
400
The ability to function and provide critical ecosystem services under changing conditions
What is Resilience (of an ecosystem)
500
CDC
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
500
LDC
What is Least Developed Countries
500
PPT
What is parts per trillion
500
Hydrocarbons, primarily coal, fuel oil or natural gas, formed from the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is Fossil Fuels
500
A plant or animal that plays a unique and crucial role in the way an ecosystem functions; without these plants or animals, ecosystems would be dramatically different or cease to exist altogether
What is Keystone Species
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