Units 1+2
What is sustainability?
The ability to meet present needs without compromising future generations.
What is population density?
The number of people living per unit area.
What is food security?
When people have enough food to live an active and healthy life.
What is acid deposition?
A mix of air pollutants that deposit from the atmosphere as acidic wet deposition or acidic dry deposition.
What is infiltration?
Water soaking into the soil from precipitation.
What layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
Stratosphere
What is biodiversity?
The variety of all life forms on Earth
What are some renewable resources?
- Solar energy
- Wind energy
- Biofuels
- Any that apply
How does ozone depletion occur?
When human-produced ozone-depleting substances (like CFCs) are released into the atmosphere and travel into the stratosphere, where they break down and release chlorine and bromine atoms.
Name a biome
Deserts, forests, grasslands, tundras, any more that apply.
What is big data?
Massive, complex data sets that are difficult to manage using traditional tools. Big data often requires computer systems.
What are some strategies governments might use to reduce birth rates?
- Promote family planning
- Female education
- Sexual education
- Increased access to contraception
-Any other valid answers
What is energy security?
The reliable availability of energy sources at an affordable price considering environmental impacts.
What are greenhouse gases?
Name an abiotic factor.
Temperature, light, pH, and any more that apply.
What is the biggest ocean?
Pacific Ocean
What is pollution?
The introduction of harmful substances into the environment
What is incineration?
The disposal of waste by burning it.
Name a strategy for managing climate change.
- Switching to low carbon fuels
- Using alternative forms of energy
- Increasing reforestation and afforestation
- Any that apply
Name an HIC.
- United States
- Canada
- Japan
- Etc.
What is competition?
The fight between different species for the same resource.
What is ozone depletion?
The thinning of Earth's ozone layer.
What is water security?
The ability to access sufficient quantities of clean water to maintain adequate standards of food and manufacturing of goods, adequate sanitation and sustainable healthcare.
What is the Paris agreement?
An international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases
What is a food chain?
A diagram that shows the transfer of energy from one organism to another