Environment and Economics
The relationship between the availability of a good or service and the desire for it.
This essential nutrient is the body's primary source of energy.
What is Carbohydrate?
This type or property describes a mineral that breaks cleanly or with a flat surface.
What is cleavage?
What is Glaciers and Ice Caps?
This environmental law regulates the discharge of pollutants into surface waters that could be caused by surface mining.
What is the Clean Water Act?
The theory that describes the depletion of shared resources due to individual actions that prioritize short-term gains over the long-term well-being of the collective.
What is "Tragedy of the Commons"
This vitamin, often obtained from sunlight, helps the body absorb calcium.
What is Vitamin D?
This is the process of restoring a mined area to its original condition or a condition suitable for other uses.
What is Reclamation?
The underground layer of rock and soil that holds groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
used to produce electricity directly from sunlight. (used in solar panels)
What are photovoltaic cells?
A tax levied on activities that generate pollution as a way to internalize environmental costs.
What is a carbon tax?
This revolution saw increases in crop
yields resulting from the use of new crop varieties and
the application of modern agriculture techniques (between 1950 and 1970).
What is the Green Revolution?
These are the principal commodities produced by quarrying. They include sand, gravel, and crushed rock.
What are aggregates?
designing a landscape that requires minimal water use.
What is Xeriscaping?
the accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain.
What is Biomagnification?
the maximum population that a given area can sustain.
What is Carrying Capacity?
the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of aquatic organisms for food and other products, similar to traditional farming on land.
What is Aquaculture?
This type of mining is used to extract minerals from riverbeds or beaches.
What is Placer Mining?
a chemical process where positively charged coagulants are added to water to neutralize the negative charges of suspended particles, causing them to clump together and form larger aggregates called flocs
What is Coagulation?
This specific species is down to just 2 females left, making the species essentially extinct.
What is the Northern White Rhinoceros?
A system where a regulatory body sets a limit or cap on pollution emissions, and companies can buy and sell allowances to emit.
What is Cap and Trade?
This metabolic process involves the breakdown of glucose into pyruvate, generating a small amount of ATP and NADH in the absence or presence of oxygen.
What is Glycolysis?
This mechanical layer of the Earth's geosphere contains most of the minerals we know today.
What is the lithosphere?
the enrichment of a body of water with nutrients, particularly phosphorus and nitrogen, leading to an overgrowth of algae and plants
What is Eutrophication?
a process that begins when a neutron or other particle strikes a nucleus.
What is Nuclear Fission?