Population
Nonrenewables / Mining
Renewables
Water / Irrigation
Weather and Climate
100

What is a population? 

What is "all members of a species that live in the same area and interact with one another"?

100

What does it mean when a resource is "nonrenewable"? 

What is "when a resource cannot be replaced as quickly as it is used? The resource will eventually run out"?

100

What does it mean when a resource is "renewable"?

What is "when a resource can be replaced as quickly as it is used"? or What is "when a resource almost never runs out"?
100

Name at least two steps of the water cycle that adds water vapor to the atmosphere. 

What is "evaporation, transpiration, and sublimation"?

100

What is the difference between weather and climate? 

What is "weather is short-term variation in weather patterns while climate and long term averages"?
200

What does the "fertility" rate refer to? 

What is "birth rate"?

200

Where does nuclear energy come from? 

What is "splitting atoms"? 

200

Where does biomass energy come from? 

What is "plants and animals"? 

200

Where is most of the water on our planet found? 

What is "the oceans"?

200

Explain the greenhouse effect. 

What is "when gases in the atmosphere trap heat and make our Earth warmer as a result"?

300

What does an exponential growth curve look like? 

Draw

300

What are the two types of mines? 

What is subsurface mining and what is surface mining? 

300

Why is biomass considered renewable but not infinite? 

What is "because biomass can be regrown but if we use too much of it we can run out"?
300

What are the four types of irrigation?

What is "spray, drip, flood, and furrow"?
300

What is the greenhouse gas that is 300x more powerful than carbon dioxide? 

What is "nitrous oxide"? 

400

Is a developing country more likely to have a rapid growth, stable growth, or negative growth population pyramid? 

what is "Rapid Growth"?

400

What does fracking extract? 

What is natural gas? 


400

Why is tidal energy super reliable? 

What is "because tides come and go at the same time every day"?

400

What causes eutrophication? 

What is "when excess nutrients are added to a body of water"? 

400

What greenhouse gas destroys the ozone layer? 

What is "CFCs"? 

(chlorofluorocarbons)

500

What does each variable represent in the following formula? 

growth = (b+i) - (d+e)

b = birth rate 

i = immigration 

d = death 

e = emigration 

500

What are some environmental impacts of mining? 

what is noise and air pollution; water pollution; habitat degradation; erosion; etc. 

500
What is the difference between solar thermal and solar photovoltaic? 

What is "solar thermal uses direct heat from the sun to heat homes or water while solar photovoltaic uses the sun's energy to create electricity"?

500

What are the effects of eutrophication? 

What is "decreased oxygen in the water, algal growth, plant and animal death, murky water, less photosynthesis, etc."? 

500

What characteristics (warm, cold, humid, dry) does a mT (maritime tropical) air mass have? 

What is "warm and humid"?