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People and the Environment
Impacts on the Land
Impacts on Water
Impacts on the Atmosphere
Environmental Extras
100
All the members living in a specific area.
What is Population?
100
The removal of large areas of forests for human uses.
What is Deforestation?
100
Largest and most common type of water use in the United States.
What is Generating electricity?
100
Caused when nitrogen and carbon compounds in the air react in sunlight.
What is Photochemical smog?
100
The natural process that occurs when carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere absorb and reradiate thermal energy from the Sun.
What is The Greenhouse Effect?
200
A sudden rises in population that happened in recent history.
What is Population Explosion?
200
The development of desert-like conditions due to human actions and/or climate change.
What is Desertification?
200
Pollution from a single source that can be identified.
What is Point-Source Pollution?
200
Rain or snow that has a lower pH than that of normal rainwater.
What is Acid precipitation?
200
Medical waste, motor oil, and batteries are known as this.
What is Hazardous Waste?
300
The cause of Population explosion in the human population.
What is Medical care, clean water, etc.?
300
The development of land for houses and other buildings near a city.
What is Urban Sprawl?
300
Pollution from several widespread sources that cannot be traced back to a single location.
What is Nonpoint-source Pollution?
300
The mix of both solid and liquid particles in the air.
What is Particulate matter?
300
The continual growth of the human population will cause..
What is Decrease of resources?
400
The largest number of individuals of a given species that Earth's resources can support and maintain.
What is Carrying Capacity?
400
Planting trees in place of where they were cut down.
What is Reforestation?
400
Law that regulates sources of water pollution, including sewage systems.
What is the Clean Water Act?
400
An increase in Earth's overall temperature is known as this.
What is Global Warming?
400
Increased Carbon Dioxide in the air can lead to this.
What is Global Warming?
500
Are impacts on the environment positive, negative, or both?
What is both?
500
Thing used to prevent leak of pollution into soil in a landfill.
What is a Liner?
500
Runoff from farms and cities is this type of pollution.
What is Nonpoint-source pollution?
500
The scale that ranks the levels of ozone and other air pollutants.
What is the Air Quality Index?
500
Which is NOT an effect of deforestation? Loss of Habitat. Increased Carbon Dioxide in air. Ozone Depletion.
What is Ozone Depletion?