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Human Effect
Science(Chapter 6)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a renewable resource? | A resource that can be produced or replenished by a healthy ecosystem |
| What is a nonrenewable resource? | A resource that cannot be replenished by natural processes within a reasonable amount of time |
| What is desertification? | A process in which land in dry climates turn farmland into desert because of overgrazing, drought, or climate change |
| What is deforestation? | The loss of forests |
| What is a pollutant? | A harmful material that can enter the biosphere |
| What is acid rain? | Rain that contains nitric and sulfuric acids |
| What is biodiversity? | The total of all the genetically based variation in all organisms in the biosphere |
| What is genetic diversity? | The total of all different forms of genetic information carried by a particular species, or by all organisms on Earth |
| What is an ecological footprint? | The total area of functioning land and water ecosystems needed both to provide the resources an individual or population uses, and to absorb and make harmless the wastes that an individual or population generates |