Environmental Issues
State the 3 major types of pollution
air pollution, water pollution, land/soil pollution
The three Rs
reduce, reuse, recycle
Main cause of global warming
greenhouse gases
Making use of food scraps to nourish a garden
compost
Climate change greatly impacts this weather phenomenon in the Caribbean
Hurricanes
Most widespread sustainability practice in barbados, commonly seen on houses, involving conversion of energy
solar panels
The process of coral expelling its algae and losing its colour
Coral Bleaching
The term by which natural substances are continuously re-supplied to the earth
nutrient cycles/geochemical cycles
Non-native organism that expands its population number and causes harm to other organisms
invasive species
The law of energy of conservation states..
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change from one form to another or be transferred from one system to another