Sustainability
The process of converting waste into reusable material.
What is recycling?
A piece of land gardened by a group of people to grow food or flowers.
What is a community garden?
A time of warm climate from 950 to 1250.
What is the Medieval Warm Period?
An increasing number of people living in urban areas.
What is Urbanization?
A group of islands clustered together.
What is an archipelago?
Using water efficiently to reduce unnecessary use.
What is water conservation?
The protection and careful use of natural resources.
What is conservation?
Severe drought combined with poor farming techniques caused this event in several American states.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Farming practices that include soil cultivation.
What is agriculture?
A flat-topped hill with steep sides.
What is a mesa?
Energy from sources that are naturally replenished, like solar or wind.
What is renewable energy?
Bus or train systems that reduce the need for individual car use.
What is public transportation?
This 1815 volcanic eruption led to the Year Without a Summer.
What is the Tambora Eruption?
Development of industries on a wide scale.
What is industrialization?
A narrow strip of land linking two larger areas.
What is an isthmus?
The process of recycling organic waste into fertilizer.
What is composting?
Designing cities to improve the quality of life and reduce environmental impact.
What is urban planning?
1816, when climate abnormalities caused food shortages.
What is the Year Without a Summer?
The condition of having excessively large population numbers.
What is overpopulation?
A long, narrow water body surrounded by cliffs.
What is a fjord?
Building and growing in ways that protect the environment for future generations.
What is sustainable development?
The practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed habitats.
What is ecosystem restoration
A period of cooling after the Medieval Warm Period.
What is the Little Ice Age?
Consumption of resources faster than replenishment.
What is resource depletion?
A ring-shaped coral reef that surrounds a lagoon.
What is an atoll?