Energy Sources
Coal, petroleum, uranium are examples of...
What is non-renewable energy?
3rs
What is reduce, reuse, recycle
Where do local municipalities stash their wastes from communities?
What are landfills?
An animal that eats only producers/plants.
What is an herbivore?
It is much broader and comprehensive term referring to all aspects of human personality- physical, social, mental, emotional etc
What is Growth?
What renewable energy is used to power homes, businesses and one day cars?
Solar Power
All living portions in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
This is a sickness that makes it hard to breathe and is worsened by air pollution
What is a asthma?
How many life stages are there?
7
What is climate change?
The heating up of Earth's surface through holes made in the ozone layer which causes weather changes and rising sea levels.
Runoff from landfills that become toxic
What is leachate?
A diagram consisting of several food chains, explaining biotic relationships within food an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
What is the difference between an ion and an isotope?
isotopes differ in their neutron number, while ions differ in their electron number
What is the most dangerous fossil fuel?
Nuclear
Climate change, deforestation, ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity
What is the risk factors or threats to our environment ?
A type of pollution that is created when precipitation is exposed to contaminated air.
What is acid rain?
What is the name of the university Ms. Dickerson graduated from?
Howard University
What are the three drug classes?
Uppers (stimulants), Downers (depressants) and Hallucinogens
What are the renewable energy sources?
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydroenergy and biomass
The quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance
What is sustainability?
What are the three top air pollutants ?
Carbon emissions, smoke, acid rain
A Federal Government Agency, aimed to keep the health of the environments through laws, regulations and standards, created in the 1970s
What is Environmental Protection Agency?
What are the seven life stages?
Infancy, Early childhood, Late childhood, Adolescence, Early adulthood, Middle adulthood, Late adulthood