UNIT 1: SDGs
There are 17 goals that help to address social, economical, and environmental issues.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
Formed when a block of piece of a glacier breaks off. The piece of ice creates an indent in the Earth's crust and begins to melt.
What is a kettle lake?
Long term measurements of precipitation and temperature in a given area.
What is climate?
The process by which businesses operate on an international scale.
What is globalization?
A person who flees their country because their life is at risk.
What is a refugee?
Th most recent period in Earth’s history where human activity started to have an impact on climate and ecosystems
What is the anthropocene?
This type of rock is formed through pressure and heat.
What is metamorphic rock?
- Melting glaciers
- Rising sea levels
- More frequent and intense hurricanes
What are the impacts of climate change?
A company that makes outdated items on purposed.
Perceived obsolescence.
Walkability, connectivity, Mixed-use & diversity, Mixed housing, quality architecture & urban design, increased density, green transportation, sustainability, quality of life
What is new urbanism and smart growth?
United among individuals or groups in relation to an agreed upon and shared goal, belief, action, etc.
What is solidarity?
Where the continents move.
What is the lithosphere?
Creating stronger structures in earthquake expected areas.
What is adaptation?
This place is where most of our fast fashion goods are produced.
Where is Bangladesh?
- job opportunities
- safety
- better education
- freedoms
- better public services
What are pull factors?
The purpose of this Act was to assimilate the Indigenous People?
What is the Indian Act?
The era when the Earth had a lot of volcanic activity and water began to form. There was no life during this time period.
What is the Precambrian Era?
Countries came together in 2015 to come up with a solution to deal with climate change.
What is the Paris Agreement?
A system that uses our environment as thought we had unlimited resources.
What is the linear system?
Leads to more pollution, energy use, and destruction of the environment.
What is urban sprawl?
Groups or individuals that impact or are impacted by an issue.
What are stakeholders?
This person discovered the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A process that occurs because of the increase in global temperatures and speeds up climate change.
What is a positive feedback loop?
A “better future” is making things sustainable, creating the least amount of waste and protecting our earth. To do this we must use the following acronym...
What is G.O.A.L?
Bring the poorest 2 billion out of poverty so that their basic needs are met.
What is the solution to population growth?