Unit 5 (Non-Ag)
The term used to describe a resource used by all, but owned by no one.
What are commons?
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, and Nuclear Energy are all examples of this form of energy.
What are nonrenewable resources?
The only emission given off by a hydrogen fuel cell.
What is water?
These air pollutants are not directly emitted into the atmosphere. Examples include ozone, sulfuric acid, and nitric acid.
What are secondary air pollutants?
This form of water pollution can decrease dissolved oxygen levels in water.
What is thermal pollution?
The element in CFCs that combines with ozone and depletes the stratospheric ozone layer.
What is chlorine?
The term used to describe surfaces that do not allow water to infiltrate into the soil, leading to runoff and potential flooding.
What is impervious or impermeable?
This fuel source is used in developing countries due to it being easily accessible.
What is wood or charcoal?
This form of energy uses the heat stored in the Earth's interior to create steam that turns a turbine. It is geographically limited to locations that are geologically active, like Yellowstone and Iceland.
What is geothermal energy?
This occurs when cooler air is trapped close to the Earth's surface leading to air pollutants not being pulled up and away from the surface.
What is a thermal inversion?
The gas released from anaerobic decomposition in a landfill that can be captured and used to generate electricity or heat.
What is methane?
This happens as a result of warming oceans. Coral expel their algae and therefore lose their symbiotic partner and cannot create sugars.
What is coral bleaching?
This is the amount of a renewable resource that can be taken without reducing the available supply.
What is the maximum sustainable yield?
This fossil fuel is considered the "cleanest" because it releases less carbon dioxide emissions when combusted than other sources and does not release any other pollutants.
What is natural gas?
Putting windows on the south-side of a home with an overhang to block the summer sun, but let in winter sun is an example of this form of solar energy.
What is passive solar energy?
This air pollutant's source is incomplete combustion and can lead to asphyxiation (suffocation) due to binding to hemoglobin.
What is carbon monoxide?
This water pollutant can lead to birth defects, developmental disorders, and gender imbalances in fish and other species.
What is an endocrine disruptor?
The term used to describe the ability of a surface to reflect light back into space. Ice has a high value, while open ocean has a low value.
What is albedo?
Methods to increase this process include replacing traditional pavement with permeable pavement, planting trees, increased use of public transportation, and building up, not out.
What is water infiltration?
The process that generates the heat in a nuclear power plant?
What is fission?
What are batteries?
This indoor air pollutant can be found in old insulation and cause cancer if inhaled.
What is asbestos?
What is fertilizer?
Characteristics of these species may include being a generalist, r-selected species and therefore able to outcompete native species for resources.
What is an invasive species?
Impacts of this process may include destroying habitats, contaminating ground water, and releasing dust particles and methane.
What is the mining of coal?
The process of using water and other chemicals under immense pressure to create cracks in rocks to access natural gas and oil.
What is hydraulic fracturing or fracking?
Overuse of this potentially renewable energy source can cause deforestation. Examples include charcoal and animal dung.
What is biomass?
This air pollution control device for internal combustion engines converts pollutants (CO, NOx, and hydrocarbons) in exhaust into less harmful molecules (CO2, N2, O2, and H2O).
What is a catalytic converter?
This animal vector transmits diseases like Zika, Malaria, and West Nile Virus.
What are mosquitoes?
This phenomenon damages coral because it makes it difficult for organisms to form shells, due to the loss of calcium carbonate.
What is ocean acidification?
This form of coal mining alters the topography of a landscape while also altering the natural habitats.
What is mountaintop removal?
This process occurs when a fuel source is used to generate both useful heat and electricity
What is cogeneration?
This form of energy does not generate air pollution or waste, but construction of the power plants can be expensive, and there may be a loss of or change in habitats
What are hydroelectric dams?
Coal combustion releases these air pollutants (must list at least three
What are carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, particulate matter?
This stage of wastewater treatment uses bacteria to break down organic matter.
What secondary treatment?
Examples of greenhouse gases (list at least 4)
What is carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, CFCs?