Vocabulary
What makes a source renewable? 2 examples
Naturally occurs but can be replace just as quickly it is used without reducing available supply
Plants/Animals/Wind/Water/Soil/C,N,P
The overturning of soil to set up crops for next harvest
Till Farming
2 ways to produce energy
Steam turbines and biomass
Problem for the prevention "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle"
Waste
When was riverside founded?
1991
This part of the soil shows each layer
Soil Horizon
Causes the effects of poor air and water quality along with high energy consumption
Urbanization/Industrialization
Part of the soil that gives characteristic to the rest of the layers
Bedrock
Problem for the prevention "land reclamation"
Mining
Diggs, Boykin, and Thompson
How are fossil fuels formed?
Fossils of plants and animals over millions of year compressed by the Earth
Creates dead zones
Fertilizers
The process to convert biomass (wood,peat,crops etc) into fuel
Combustion, Bacteria, Biofuels.
Problem for the prevention "selective logging", "land infertility"
Deforestation and desertfication
How many language classes do you need to graduate.
2
the replacement of renewable resources at the same rate they are used
Sustainable Yield
When growing 1 type of crop it is easily susceptible to disease.
Monoculture
Use bacteria. They are put into a chamber w/o oxygen. The bacteria start to eat away at the waste and will produce methane gas (their own waste). Gas processed to be used in homes
4 prevention methods of Poor Agriculture
Contour Farming, Terraces, No till farming, Wind break , Off Seasons
Name the 4 Assistant Principals
McKoy, Okun, Patterson, Clay