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Social study vocab 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biosphere | Regions of Earth occupied by living organisms, made up of all the ecozones |
| Stewardship | Careful management of resources to ensure that they are sustainable |
| Permafrost | subsoil that remains frozen all year long |
| Carrying Capacity | the largest population that an environment can support |
| Deforestation | the process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else |
| Global Warming | the observed and projected increase in the earth’s average temperature due to burning of fossil fuels and deforestation |
| Ecology | the science concerned with the relationship between living things and the environment. |
| Acid Precipitation | any form of precipitation that is high in sulfuric and nitric acids as a result of pollution in air. |
| Sustainable Development | |
| Earth Summit | |
| Agenda 21 | |
| Herbicides | |
| Pesticides | |
| Organic | |
| CO2 emissions | |
| Biodiversity | |
| Ecotourism |