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IPC Environ Impact

TEKS I.8.D

TermDefinition
Environmental impact any change to the natural environment, harmful or beneficial, resulting from human or natural activities
Economic Impact the overall effect of an event or activity on a region's economy, measuring changes in jobs, income, and output.
Chemical reaction A chemical change that occurs when two or more substances combine to form a new substance.
End product The final material or substance left at the completion of a series of reactions.
Reactants Elements and compounds that are present at the beginning of a chemical reaction.
Acid rain Mixture of wet and dry deposition from the atmosphere containing higher than normal amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids.
Degradation of water The process of reducing to a lower condition, quality or level of water.
Degradation of air quality The process of reducing to a lower condition, quality or level of air.
Ozone depletion The reducing of the ozone.
Nitric acid A clear, colorless to yellow liquid that is very corrosive and can dissolve most metals; used to make fertilizers, explosives, dyes, and rocket fuels.
Sulfuric acid A highly corrosive, dense, oily liquid, colorless to dark brown; used to manufacture fertilizers, paints, detergents, and explosives.
Wet deposition The accumulation of acids that fall to the Earth dissolved in water including acid rain, snow, and fog.
Dry deposition The accumulation of acidic particles that settle out of the atmosphere or of acidic gases that are absorbed by plant tissues or other surfaces.
Greenhouse gases Gases absorb infrared radiation, e.g., carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons.
Greenhouse effect The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
Acidification To make or become acid.
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