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Moises Vocab
Chemistry words
Question | Answer |
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Greenhouse gasses | carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and water vapor. |
Deforestation | the purposeful clearing of forested land. |
Biodiversity | the variety of life on Earth, in all its forms, from genes and bacteria to entire ecosystems such as forests or coral reefs. |
Ocean Acidification | a reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period of time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. |
Environmental Sustainability | the ability to maintain an ecological balance in our planet's natural environment and conserve natural resources to support the wellbeing of current and future generations. |
Economic Viability | a project that provides an overall positive net economic contribution to society after all costs and benefits have been accounted for. |
Social Equity | focuses on social justice and fairness. |
Technological Feasibility | to determine the potential economic viability of a process or technology. |
Political Feasibility | Political feasibility is a measure of how well a solution to a policy problem, will be accepted by a set of decision makers and the general public. For a policy to be enacted and implemented, it must be politically acceptable, or feasible. |
Cultural Acceptance | accepting oneself and one's culture in the context of the larger community. |
Resilience | the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. |
Adaptation | any heritable trait that helps an organism, such as a plant or animal, survive and reproduce in its environment. |
Qualitative data | data representing information and concepts that are not represented by numbers. |
Quantitative data | data that can be counted or measured in numerical values. |
constraints | a limitation or restriction. |
criteria | a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided. |
Trade-offs | a balance achieved between two desirable but incompatible features; a compromise. |