Agriculture
This was the method human's used to obtain food BEFORE agriculture.
What is Hunting and Gathering?
This is the term for a massive tidal wave caused by underwater earthquakes.
What is a Tsunami?
This is the process of shooting pressurized water and chemicals to release gas and oil trapped in layers of rock.
What is Fracking?
This is the name for the objects or chemicals that pollute something in the environment, such as CO2 or Volcanic Ash.
What are Pollutants?
This is the name for plants or animals that have been modified artificially to produce a certain trait.
What is a GMO?
This is the name for seasonal winds and weather in the Indian Ocean area.
What are monsoons?
Wind, Solar, and Hydroelectric are all examples of this type of resource.
What is renewable resource?
This was the cause of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
What is switching their water source to the Flint River and causing corrosion of lead pipes?
This process happens when a plant or animal is selectively bred across multiple generations in order to get a desirable characteristic.
What is domestication?
This type of natural disaster caused thousands of people to be displaced from their homes in New Orleans and caused billions of dollars in flood damages.
What is a Hurricane (Katrina)?
This term describes the decrease in fish populations as the result of human activity.
What is overfishing?
Since the majority of Earth's drinkable water is either frozen in ice caps or underground, this is where most people on Earth choose to settle.
What is near sources of surface water?
This method is used to replenish the nutrients in land by alternating what plants a grown on what fields.
What is Crop Rotation?
Natural Disasters are more likely to affect these, since they have less resources to pay for damages and the services required to protect people.
What are LDCs?
These are the two problems for the local environment that happen when a dam is installed
What is destruction of wildlife upstream and less water flow downstream?
Deforestation mostly occurs in this type of climate.
What is tropical?
These are the names of the TWO agricultural revolutions that first produced and second improved agriculture.
What are the Neolithic and Green revolutions?
This is the name for a disease that spreads across multiple regions or continents and infects people quickly.
What is a pandemic?
This type of agriculture is often done in tropical climates and is meant to produce cash crops that are then sold for a profit.
What is plantation agriculture?
This is the process where salt is removed from water to make it drinkable.
What is desalination?