Environmental Issues

Define

100

Define Preservation

animal protection from danger

200

Define Conservation

management of resource

300

define Human footprint

 impact of humans’ life on Earth

400

Define Exploitation- poaching;

benefiting from the use of resources

500

define Biodiversity

vrity of life on Earth

who,what

100

Rachel Carson did what

writer of silent springs

200

writer of Sand Coneye Aminac is who

Aldo Leopold

300

Gifford Pinchot did what

 director Forest Service

400

who established  1st National Wildlife Refuge for the brown pelican

Teddy Roosevel

500

John Muir did what

he is a writer which  led to the establishment of Yosemite National Park

list it

100

 List and explain 3 values of biodiversity:

1. medicines-anti-venom and vaccines

2. agricultural – food, soil

3. ecosystem stability -- keeps balance in nature

200

List 6 things that pollution causes:

1. Global warming

2. acid rain

3. infertial  land

4. ozone layer depletion

5.  erosion

6. Destroys bodys systems

300

List 3 examples of renewable resources:

soil,wind,geothermal

400

List 3 examples of nonrenewable resources:

coil,oil,naturle gas

500

List 3 things that overpopulation causes:

Global warming,Habitat destruction,invasive species

Definition

100

Define Overuse of resources

depletion of raw materials

200

define Overpopulation

organism numbered

300

define Pollution

contaminants going into the environment

400

define environmental science

A study on how people affect the environment.