Sustainability 1
This cause of extinction is when global average temperatures increase or decrease.
Global climate change
This greenhouse gas is caused by the burning of carbon-based fossil fuels.
Carbon dioxide
The natural home or environment of an organism is known as this.
Habitat
This is one of the primary causes of extinction.
Habitat loss
The belief or practice that encourages people to buy and use more goods and services, often beyond basic needs, in order to drive economic growth or achieve personal satisfaction.
Consumerism
Measure of an individual's impact on the environment by calculating Greenhouse gas emissions from their lifestyle (i.e. consumption and transportation)
Carbon footprint
This uses windmills to transform wind energy into electricity.
Wind power
This is remade by natural processes at the same rate that humans use it up.
Renewable resource
This means the many different types of life on Earth.
Biodiversity
This uses moving water to turn turbines or water wheels to create electricity.
Hydropower
This is discarded electronic devices and electrical equipment that are no longer used, wanted, or working.
E-Waste
This process uses organisms like bacteria, fungi, and small animals to turn organic waste into soil.
Composting
Products designed to wear out or become outdated quickly to encourage
planned obsolescence
This means taking a used item, breaking it down, and reusing the pieces.
Recycling
The current trend for global climate change is caused by this.
The burning of fossil fuels
This cannot be replaced as easily as it is consumed.
A nonrenewable resource
This uses solar cells to turn sunlight into electricity.
Solar power
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms and gardens, they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
Fertilizers or pesticides
Mention two new jobs that exist because of climate change.
solar panel installer, environmental consultant
Which regions have experienced the most obvious and impactful effect of global warming so far?
Arctic regions
The largest cause of deforestation today is this.
Slash-and-burn agriculture
A government policy that assigns a cost to greenhouse gas emissions to discourage pollution.
carbon pricing
Name two natural processes that emit pollution into the air.
Volcanic eruptions and forest fires.
Release of nitrogen oxide back into the atmosphere leads to this.
Acid rain
Economic systems that rely heavily on exporting a single agricultural or natural resource.
cash-crop economies