Resources
A natural resource used for hydration, agriculture, and industrialization.
What is water?
These are fueled by dry vegetation, heat, and unstable winds.
What are wildfires?
Taking actions to reduce the severity, impact, or likelihood of environmental harm
What is environmental mitigation?
This occurs when certain communities face more environmental burdens than others.
What is environmental inequality
These two things cause wildfires to move quickly.
What are dry conditions and high winds?
The type of fuels that we are currently reliant on.
What are fossil fuels?
These occur when underground rock dissolves and the surface collapses.
What are sink holes?
The practice of protecting, preserving, and wisely managing Earth's natural resources, habitats, and biodiversity for current and future generations
What is conservation?
These residents can invest in safer housing, better insurance coverage, and early relocation.
What are high income residents?
The regional nickname given to an 85-mile stretch of land along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, in the River Parishes of Louisiana, which contains over 200 petrochemical plants and refineries.
What is cancer alley?
The natural resource used for wiring, batteries, tools, and physical infrastructure.
What are minerals?
This occurs when runoff exceeds ground absorption.
What is flooding?
This helps to prevent wildfires by burning away excess fuel.
What is a controlled burn?
These residents face constraints such as limited transportation, fragile housing, and fewer savings.
What are lower income residents?
These are found all over the seafloor have been a huge topic in the discussion of mining versus conservation.
What are polymetallic nodules?
A process that changes the structure or composition of a natural substance so that is is useful.
What is refinement?
This causes the water cycle to move quicker.
What is excess heat?
The practice of planting different crops sequentially in the same area over time to improve soil health, manage nutrients, and control pests and weeds
What is crop rotation?
Areas outside of urbanization that face higher risks for instability after natural disasters.
What are rural areas?
These are released into the air during industrialized processes and are used to determine AQI
What is particulate matter?
When ocean water seeps into the coast's ground water due to the overuse of freshwater.
What is saltwater intrusion?
The gradual movement toward increasing dryness in a region.
What is aridification?
Preserving these helps to absorb and filter water back into the earth.
What are wetlands?
This infrastructure failure magnified both physical damage and human displacement in New Orleans after Katrina.
What are the levees breaking?
The names of Ms. Luce's cats
What is Spike and Leo?