System Science
This is a group of interacting parts that work together.
What is a system.
This type of farming grows one crop over a very large area.
What is monoculture.
Most of the world's electricity is generated by burning these fuels.
What is fossil fuels.
the network of people, organizations, infrastructure, and services that work together to protect people's health, prevent disease and injury, and respond to emergencies.
What is Health and Safety System
This device produces electricity by spinning with moving air.
What is a wind turbine.
In an agricultural system, fertilizer and water would be examples of what?
What is an input.
These chemicals are applied to crops to kill insects, weeds, or fungi.
What are pesticides.
This machine converts spinning motion into electricity.
What is a turbine.
Also accepted: Generator
Electric Vehicles are a solution to which City System?
What is transportation system.
This system is unsustainable because it treats living ecosystems as inexhaustible resource pools. Once fish populations fall below recovery thresholds, both ecological and economic systems fail.
What is Industrial Fishing.
This leaves a system after the processes have occurred.
What are outputs.
This sustainable approach to crop loss uses genetically modified organisms which have specific pest resistance in it's genome.
What is GMOs
Genetically modified organisms.
This renewable energy source generates electricity by using moving water.
What is hydropower.
The following are characteristics of which type of sustainable temperature control?
Uses sunlight naturally
Low energy use
Reduces pollution
Requires careful design
What is Passive Solar Design
DAILY DOUBLE:
Name two systems that depend on each other inside a city.
The form of food preservation when you use salt, sugar, or smoke to prevent pathogens
What is curing.
This is a model used to visualize the interactions between components within a system.
What is a system map.
This happens when pests survive pesticide use and pass their genes to future generations.
What is pesticide resistance.
DAILY DOUBLE:
A farmer releases ladybugs into a greenhouse to reduce aphid populations on plants. What type of pest control is being used?
This form of renewable energy is produced by the Photoelectric Effect.
What is solar energy.
This city practice turns food scraps into nutrient-rich soil instead of sending them to landfills.
What is composting.
Solar panels generate electricity because of this scientific phenomenon, where photons eject electrons off of a metal plate.
What is the Photoelectric Effect.
The three pillars of sustainability are:
What are Environmental, social, economic.
the process of preventing food from spoiling so it stays safe to eat for a longer period of time.
What is food preservation.
This type of system is sustainable because the resource (input) for power is
What is renewable.
Homes with solar panels, good insulation, and rainwater collection are examples of this type of housing.
What is sustainable Housing
When outputs from the system re-enter as inputs is known as