Vocab Words
The name for the gradual removal of soil, by water, wind, or gravity.
What is Erosion?
Energy that is always available or is replaced in a relatively short amount of time.
What is renewable energy?
The name of the act that was passed to protect human and environmental health through the improving of air quality.
What is the Clean Air Act?
The name for the spongelike formations of rock, sand, or gravel that hold water.
What are aquifers?
The kinetic energy of atoms and molecules.
What is thermal energy?
The act that prohibits the releasing of pollution from a point source and set standards for pollutant levels in water sources.
What is the Clean Water Act?
The name for the transfer of energy through space, such as the heat from the sun to the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is radiation?
The energy source that produces the least amount of emissions.
What is nuclear energy?
The treaty that cut CFC production by 95 percent since the 1980s and has helped the ozone layer recover.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The name of an area of water that experiences a lack of oxygen and can not sustain marine life.
What is a dead zone?
The name of the shortest wavelength.
What are radio waves?
The act that encourages prescribed burns and promotes the act of salvage logging which is the removal of small trees, underbrush, and snags.
What is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act?
The name of the buildup of toxins in the tissues of an organism.
What is Bioaccumulation?
The name of the event and location of the place where a partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor occurred in the United States.
What is Three Mile Island, Middletown Pennsylvania?
The act that established programs to buy degrading farmland from farmers and education for local farmers.
What is the Soil Conservation Act?