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Cole.Unit #14
You Be the Teacher-Environmental Chemistry
Term | Definition |
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Environmental Chemistry | The scientific study of chemical phenomena that occur in natural places. |
Photosynthesis | A process used by plants to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organism's activities. |
Decomposition | The natural process of dead animal or plant tissue being rotted or broken down. |
Global Warming/Climate Change | The idea that the Earth is changing climate due to the greenhouse effect in the Earth's atmosphere. |
The greenhouse effect | The greenhouse gasses trap the sun's heat inside our atmosphere, making the Earth warm enough for us to live on it. |
Greenhouse Gasses | The gasses in the Earth's atmosphere that trap the sun's heat, making Earth warmer. Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and water vapor. |
Alternative Energy | Different sources of energy such as wind energy and solar energy, that do not hurt the environment as much as fossil fuels. |
Fossil Fuels | The most used source of energy today, the burning of fossils that creates energy but supposedly causes global warming. |
Wind Energy | Comes in the form of wind turbines, an alternative energy source that uses the wind to create energy. |
Solar Energy | Comes in the form of solar panels, an alternative energy source that uses the sun to create energy rather than the burning of fossil fuels. |
Environmental Chemist | Chemists that have to understand how chemicals move through the environment and their effect on the environment. |
Putrescine and Cadaverine | The chemicals released during the putrefication of a dead plant or animal that causes the horrible odor of a rotting corpse. |
Autolysis | One of the two factors of decomposition. The breaking down of tissue by the body's own enzymes and internal chemicals. |
Putrefication | One of the two factors of decomposition. The breaking down of tissue by the bacteria. |
Pollution | The introduction of contaminants in the natural environment that causes adverse change. |
Chloroplast | The part of plant cells that contains chlorophyll. |
Chlorophyll | The chemical that turns sunlight into energy during photosynthesis. |
Methane, CO2 and Water vapor | Common greenhouse gasses that are in the atmosphere of the Earth. |
Hydraulic Fracking | A technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock. |
Why drill horizontally? | Because it can create new pathways to more shale rock. More shale rock means more gas and oil. |
Supposed effects of Fracking? | Tremors in the area of the drilling. |