Agriculture
What does CAFO stand for?
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
What is the definition of a planetary boundary?
A safe operating zone for human activity on earth
What is the term used to describe when an individual does not have access to food?
Food Insecurity
What have biologists concluded is underway, driven by human actions?
Sixth mass extinction
What are two sustainable methods of nitrifying soil
Cover cropping and crop rotation
The green revolution introduced what three new technologies?
Synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, GMOs
What is the planetary boundary that concerns blocking harmful ultraviolet radiation to protects life on Earth.
Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
Who is mainly impacted by food deserts?
Mainly people of color and low-income communities
What is the genetic makeup of an individual and not an individual's observable chracteristics or traits?
Where is the most of Earth’s phosphorus found
The Lithosphere
The majority of agriculture has been simplified into the growth of which three crops?
Corn, wheat, and sugar cane
What are the three Planetary Boundaries that are in safe operating zones?
Ocean Acidification, Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, Atmospheric Aerosol Loading
What is the definition of redlining?
The exclusion of people of color from more desirable neighborhoods
What is the name for where biodiversity is the richest near the equator?
Latitudinal Species Gradient
What has to happen to nitrogen in order for humans to use it?
Fertilizer run-off typically leads to unhealthy water-based environments where many species struggle to live because of...
Eutrophication
What happens when a planetary boundary is exceeded?
Increases the risk of large-scale irreversible environmental changes
What is a way to have better urban planning to reduce the effects of environmental hazards?
inclusion of people within the community to decide what happens to their neighborhood
What conditions need to be met to be classified as a species?
freely breeding under natural conditions and producing viable offspring
What are the four main biogeochemical cycles?
Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus
Raising a single cattle takes ___ gallons of water.
26.5
What are all of the Planetary Boundaries?
Ocean Acidification, Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, Atmospheric Aerosol Loading, Climate Change, Freshwater Change, Biosphere Integrity, Biogeochemical Flows, Novel Entities, and Land-System Change
During the COVID-19 pandemic what percentage of overall college students were experiencing food insecurity?
34% (3% margin)
What percent of Earth's composition of species is bacteria?
78% percent (5% margin allowed)
What is the largest carbon sink?
The ocean