Vocab
Desertification
What is the over grazing or over deforestation of an area leading to desert like conditions.
How can fertilizers be harmful?
Get into water through runoff
Be accidentally eaten
Harm good organisms
This is the unplanned outward expansion of cities that have become too dense.
What is urban sprawl?
How can you be sustainable?
Turn off lights, use less, more apartments, recycle, etc
Deforestation
What is the over removal of trees?
When population increases, so does a need for food. What things are being done to increase food supplies?
GMO's to increase crop yields, deforestation to make more farm land, modifying our foods
Why are apartments a greater use of land?
They take up less room and can house more people.
What is Reduce?
Use less or stop using certain things.
Arable Land
What is land that is suitable for farming or raising animals?
This lead to the increase of food production during the 1940's and 1960's
What is the green revolution?
This is the intentional planning of a city to ensure that all residence have what they need.
What is urban planning
What is Reuse?
Use something again and again. Same or different purpose.
Urbanization
What is the movement of people to more urban areas due to job and housing availability?
What is water and land (space)
What is Recycle?
Break or changing things to be used in different ways.