Vocabulary
Deforestation
What is the clearing of forested land.
What is the first "E"?
What is environment
The forced migration of people due to environmental factors.
What is displacement
A system of agriculture that relies on modern technologies and practices.
What is conventional farming
The contamination of the air, either indoors or outdoors.
What is air pollution
Urbanization
What is the process of making an area more urban.
What is the second "E"?
What is economy
Negative conditions that drive people to leave their home country.
What is a push factor
When livestock are cycled through fenced grazing areas known as paddocks.
What is rotational grazing
The degradation of soil by harmful substances.
What is soil pollution
Euclidean Zoning
What is a type of zoning that only allows one kind of land use per zone.
What is the third "E"?
What is equity
Positive conditions that attract people to a new country.
What is a pull factor
The alternation of crops with small grains to slow water runoff.
What is strip cropping
Harmful amounts of noise.
What is noise pollution
Sustainable Forestry
What is the management of forests in a way that will keep forests healthy.
The "three E's" lead to what?
What is sustainability
Unrestricted growth in many urban areas
What is Urban Sprawl
A more economical process due to a decrease in the cost of LED technology.
What is vertical farming
A harmful/excessive use of light.
What is light pollution
Fragmentation
What is the process of breaking or being broken into small or separate parts.
The balance of the "three E's" is critical to providing for what.
What is human needs
When low-income or declining neighborhood gets upgraded and revitalized.
What is gentrification
An agricultural technique that involves planting crops without disturbing the soil through tillage.
What is no-till cropping
When radioactive material is released into the atmosphere.
What is radioactive pollution