Sustainability 1
This cause of extinction is when global average temperatures increase or decrease.
Global climate change
This greenhouse gas is caused by the burning of carbon-based fossil fuels.
Carbon dioxide
The natural home or environment of an organism is known as this.
Habitat
This is one of the primary causes of extinction.
Habitat loss
Name two ways you can help conserve water
Take shorter showers, turn the water off while brushing teeth, limit the amount of water used for watering lawns and gardens, etc.
This is adding harmful chemicals, noise, heat, or light to an environment.
Pollution
This process uses organisms like bacteria, fungi, and small animals to turn organic waste into soil.
Composting
The complete disappearance of a species is known as this.
Extinction
This means taking a used item, breaking it down, and reusing the pieces.
Recycling
The current trend for global climate change is caused by this.
The burning of fossil fuels
Measure of an individual's impact on the environment by calculating Greenhouse gas emissions from their lifestyle (i.e. consumption and transportation)
Carbon footprint
This uses windmills to transform wind energy into electricity.
Wind power
This is remade by natural processes at the same rate that humans use it up.
Renewable resource
This means the many different types of life on Earth.
Biodiversity
This uses moving water to turn turbines or water wheels to create electricity.
Hydropower
This cannot be replaced as easily as it is consumed.
A nonrenewable resource
This uses solar cells to turn sunlight into electricity.
Solar power
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms and gardens, they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
Fertilizers or pesticides
This activity seeks to improve the health of an ecosystem by planting native species and removing invasive ones.
Habitat restoration
Which regions have experienced the most obvious and impactful effect of global warming so far?
Arctic regions
The largest cause of deforestation today is this.
Slash-and-burn agriculture
This atom forms very strong bonds to many other atoms and is called the "duct tape" of atoms.
Carbon
Name two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
Volcanic eruptions and forest fires.
Release of nitrogen oxide back into the atmosphere leads to this.
Acid rain
Exotic or new species to an area that can easily adapt, grow, and outcompete native species is known as this.
An invasive species