Unit 8-9
The introduction of harmful materials into the environment
What is Pollution?
Tectonic plates that move toward each other; come together.
What is a Convergent Plate Boundary?
Average age a person can be expected to live
What is Life Expectancy?
A disease-causing agent, such as bacterium, virus, or parasite
What is a Pathogen?
Waste that has substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment
What is Hazardous Waste?
Not having access to sufficient food, or food of an adequate quality, to meet one's basic needs
What is Food Insecurity?
Land area that delivers runoff, sediment, and dissolved substances to streams, lakes, or wetlands.
What is a Watershed?
Increase or decrease in the size of a population
What is Population Change?
An infectious agent that is smaller than bacterium and invades a cell – example: the flu
What is a Virus?
Form of recycling where decayed organic material is used as a plant fertilizer
What is Composting?
Logging forests creates clear-cut, open ground areas that were once protected by the cover of trees. Logging roads that are built for the logging trucks
to travel on can also be cut through forests, disrupting the habitat.
What is Habitat Fragmentation?
Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock
What is an Aquifer?
Trend in which more and more people live in urban areas.
What is Urbanization?
The probability of suffering harm from a hazard that can cause injury, disease, death,
economic loss, or damage
What is a Risk?
A group of people seeking to influence politicians or public officials on a particular issue.
What is a Lobby?
A system that begins to consider potential environmental and social impacts by eliminating the use of synthetic inputs, such as synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, veterinary drugs, genetically modified seeds and breeds, preservatives, additives and irradiation.
What is Organic Farming
Mineral with superior or unique properties that make it extremely useful in technology products
What is a Rare Earth Metal?
Ocala, as a city, has continued to grow over the years. This has led to growth in nearby cities like Dunnellon.
What is Urban Sprawl?
An agent or factor which causes malformation of an embryo
What is a Teratogen?
The use of microorganisms to consume and break down environmental pollutants, in order to clean up a
polluted site
What is Bioremediation?
Coral reefs are struggling from the effects of climate change, pollution, disease, overfishing, sedimentation, and other stressors.
What is Habitat Degradation?
Any form of mining involving the extraction of mineral deposits that lie in large horizontal beds close to
the Earth’s surface
What is Strip Mining?
Set of policies and tools that encourage more environmentally sustainable urban development with less dependence on cars
What is Smart Growth?
A chemical, type of radiation, or virus that can cause or promote cancer
What is a Carcinogen?
Having the knowledge, skills and dispositions to solve problems that sustain ecological, economic and social stability.
What is Environmental Literacy?