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Human Impact on the Lithosphere
Resource Extraction
Alternative Energy
Energy Pros and Cons
Shorelines
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What are three negative impacts that humans have one the lithosphere.
Answers may vary pesticides/groundwater pollution erosion/less vegetation drilling/more earthquakes
100
What resources do we mine for?
coal and uranium/plutonium
100
What is Wind energy?
Wind energy is the using of the wind to power our resources. This is used through turbines.
100
What are some disadvantages of wind energy?
High land use, visual pollution, lots of noise, and can ruin the paths of birds, etc.
100
What is a long-shore current?
A shoreline current is when water approaches the shore at an angle. These can cause erosion off and on the beach in a zigzag pattern.
200
What would be another type of irrigation that can mitigate the detrimental impact made by humans?
drip irrigation
200
What do we use to obtain oil from rocks?
oil rigs
200
What is Hydroelectric power and what are some disadvantages?
Hydroelectric power generated by falling water. This can affect ecosystems and is very expensive.
200
What are some advantages and disadvantages of solid biomass?
Advantages: Moderate cost, no net CO2, plantation can help degraded land, make use of agricultural time and urban wastes, etc. Disadvantages: Nonrenewable, moderate to high environmental impact, CO2 emissions, low photosynthetic energy, and water pollution, etc.
200
How does a barrier island occur? What can destroy these?
Wave energy rops sand out in the ocean and forms a sand bar. Deposition causes the sandbar to rise out of the ocean and form a Barrier Island. A hurricane can destroy a barrier island.
300
How does urbanization affect the lithosphere?
When we clear the land of trees massive vegetation is lost and erosion will then occur.;exposing rocks and weathering them down.
300
What is hydrofracking,what is it use for?
large amounts of water, combined with smaller amounts of chemicals and sand, are pumped under high pressure into a drilled gas well.
300
What is the process of Geothermal energy? Where does this have to occur?
Heat from the earth's interior rises up heating the groundwater and turning the water into steam powering the geothermal station. This process can only work at tectonic boundaries.
300
Does the Conventional Nuclear cycle have more advantages or disadvantages? Why?
This cycle has more disadvantages. This is because it is radioactive and releases lots of chemicals into our air. Even though this energy gives a lot of resources and takes little space it is a potential threat towards terrorists and affects environments.
300
What can we do to prevent sand dunes on beaches?
We can create a seawall that blocks deposition from depositing in certain places.
400
How can deforestation lead to global warming?
When trees are cut down,the release lots of carbon dioxide making the air get warmer.
400
Where can peat be found?What country?
Swamp and Ireland
400
What does a photovoltiac panel do in the process of solar energy?
Converts sunlight into electricity.
400
What substance leaks from conventional natural gas pipelines? Is it a advantage or disadvantage?
The substance is methane and this is a disadvantage.
400
How does sand relate to the lithosphere?
Sand particles are part of sedimentary rock and can be compacted into rocks.
500
What can surface mining be compared to? or have similar outcomes with?
deforestation because lack of vegetation and making the land clear.
500
What type of mining causes the most damage to the lithosphere and why?
Under ground mining because it can cause erosion and groundwater pollution
500
What are the three types of biofuels? What do they come from? What is biomass?
Bio-ethanol, biodiesel, and biomass. These resources all come from living organisms. Biomass is the remains of a living plant or animal.
500
Out of nuclear and coal which one has a low CO2 emission and low air pollution but a high cost.
Nuclear
500
What are some forces that can cause sea level to change?
Answers might vary: -Tectonic plates -Melting glaciers