Human impact on LAND
When humans cut forests to clear land for human activities, like farms or houses.
p. 13
Deforestation
The name for the large area of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean
p. 51
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The contamination of air by harmful substances including smog, CFCs, and particulate matter.
p. 64
Air Pollution
The global trends or changes in cooling, warming, precipitation, wind, and other measures.
p. 84
This is a large concrete structure that blocks a river and uses the flowing water to generate electricity.
p. 41
Dam
Clearing land to make cities. It results in habitat destruction and not enough groundwater going into aquifers and running off of the concrete instea . p. 18
Urbanization
DAILY DOUBLE
For 200 points each, name all the ways humans use fresh water BESIDES household use.
A common disorder of the respiratory system in which the trachea and bronchi become too narrow, which makes it hard to breathe. Breating air pollution makes it worse.
p. 67
This effect, experienced when getting into a car on a sunny day, happens when sunlight can enter but heat cannot leave.
p. 87
Greenhouse Effect
What percentage of the water on Earth is fresh liquid water in lakes, rivers, glaciers, and aquifers?
p. 40
The careful use of Earth's resources to reduce damage to the environment. p. 24
conservation
These underground sources of water can dry up if too many wells are dug. The empty space left behind can result in sinkholes.
p. 43
Aquifers
The scientific name for particles of dust, smoke, and dirt in the air, released from factories and burning fossil fuels. p. 66
Particulate matter
Name a greenhouse gas.
Carbon Dioxide, Methane, nitrous oxide, CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons)
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Which of these have scientists found to be the most effective of the three?
p. 25, 55
Reduce! Buy and use fewer items.
This human use of land can result in environmental damage due to problems related to poor soil quality or fertilizer.
p. 16
Agriculture / farming
When this material used in human farming practices gets into rivers and oceans, weeds and algae populations explode, leaving no room for other species. p.51
fertilizer
This forms when toxic gases like pollution mix with precipitation that has a lower pH than normal rainwater. It can poison soil, trees, and organisms living in water.
p. 68
Acid Rain / Acid Precipitation
This landmark international agreement by the countries of the United Nations agrees to limit carbon dioxide emissions to keep global temperatures from rising. (2 correct answers)
p. 100
Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement
When humans cut down trees near water, the dirt can slide down the hill into the water and kill organisms living in the water. What type of water pollution is this?
p. 51
Excess Sediments
This is the scientific name for chemicals that increase the amount of food grown on land by killing insects that would otherwise eat the crops. Another word for bugspray.
p. 16
Pesticide
This is the name of a river that flows through Cleaveland, Ohio that was so polluted it caught fire. As a result, the United States passed the Clean Water Act in 1972.
p. 55
Cuyahoga River
The Oxygen we breathe has a chemical symbol of O2, representing two oxygen molecules bonded together. Name the highly toxic photochemical smog molecule that has the symbol of O3.
p. 65
Ozone
The scientific name for oil, coal, and natural gas. Burning these results in energy, but also the release of greenhouse gases.
Fossil Fuels
CFCs are destroying the ozone layer, which protects Earth from harmful radiation. These greenhouse gases are released from old refrigerators and spray cans.
What does CFC stand for?
p. 64
Chlorofluorocarbons