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This field of study focuses on the interactions between humans and the natural world.
What is Environmental Science?
This term describes a group of different species living and interacting in the same area.
What is a community?
This is the outermost layer of the Earth where tectonic plates are located.
What is the lithosphere?
This is the most widely used energy source worldwide today.
What is fossil fuels?
This term refers to the contamination of water by harmful substances like chemicals or pathogens.
What is water pollution?
These resources, such as sunlight and wind, replenish naturally over short periods of time.
What are renewable resources?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight or chemicals.
What are producers?
Earthquakes commonly occur at this type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
Using wind or solar energy helps the environment because they produce no direct air pollution or these harmful emissions.
What is they produce no direct air pollution or greenhouse gas emissions?
Bacteria, viruses, and parasites are examples of this type of water pollutant.
What are biological pollutants?
This term describes the impact a person or population has on land, water, and resources?
What is an ecological footprint?
What would most likely happen to the population of secondary consumers if the primary consumers in an ecosystem were removed?
What is their population would decrease due to lack of food?
Seasonal changes on Earth are caused by this characteristic of Earth’s movement.
What is the tilt of Earth’s axis?
This air pollutant is a primary contributor to acid rain and is released mainly by burning fossil fuels.
What is sulfur dioxide (SO₂)?
Excess nitrogen and phosphorus entering a body of water can cause this process, which leads to algae blooms and oxygen depletion.
What is eutrophication?
Name two environmental indicators used to evaluate the health of the planet.
What are average global temperature and resource depletion?
This type of population growth occurs when resources are unlimited, and the population increases rapidly.
What is exponential growth?
This process occurs when fertile land degrades into desert due to drought, deforestation, or poor farming practices.
What is desertification?
Nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds react in sunlight to form this type of smog.
What are nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)?
This greenhouse gas is the most abundant contributor to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
This concept explains how individuals acting in their own self-interest can overuse and deplete shared resources.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
Which type of survivorship curve (Type I, II, or III) represents species that have high parental care and low infant mortality?
What is Type I?
This irrigation method conserves water by delivering it directly to the roots of plants.
What is drip irrigation?
Burning biomass for cooking and heating is a major source of this type of indoor air pollution in developing countries.
What is the burning of biomass for cooking and heating?
Rising sea levels, more extreme weather events, and loss of biodiversity are major impacts caused by this global phenomenon.
What is climate change?