sustainablity
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| show | Sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides, emitted by burning fossil fuels, enter the atmosphere-where they com¬bine with oxygen and water to form sulfuric acid and nitric acid-and return to Earth's surface
🗑
|
||||
| show | Conversion of sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides to acids that return to Earth as rain, snow, or fog.
🗑
|
||||
| Active solar energy systems | show 🗑
|
||||
| Air pollution | show 🗑
|
||||
| Animate power | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Amount of oxygen required by aquatic bacteria to decompose a given load of organic waste; a measure of water pollution.
🗑
|
||||
| Biodiversity | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A nuclear power plant that creates its own fuel from plutonium
🗑
|
||||
| show | A gas used as a solvent, a propellant in aerosols, a refrigerant, and in plastic foams and fire extinguishers.
🗑
|
||||
| Conservation | show 🗑
|
||||
| Ferrous Metals | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The splitting of an atomic nucleus to release energy.
🗑
|
||||
| Fossil fuel Energy | show 🗑
|
||||
| Fusion | show 🗑
|
||||
| Geothermal energy | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Anticipated increase in Earth's temperature, caused by carbon dioxide (emitted by burning fossil fuels) trapping some of the radiation emitted by the surface.
🗑
|
||||
| Hydroelectric power | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Power supplied by machines.
🗑
|
||||
| show | metals utilized to make products other than iron and steel.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A source of energy that is a finite supply capable of being exhausted.
🗑
|
||||
| show | gas that absorbs ultraviolet solar radiation, found in the stratosphere, a zone between 15 and 50 kilometers (9 to 30 miles) above Earth's surface.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Solar energy system that collects energy without the use of mechanical devices.
🗑
|
||||
| show | An atmospheric condition formed through a combination of weather conditions and pollution, especially from motor vehicle emissions.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Solar energy cells, usually made from silicon, that collect solar rays to generate electricity.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Addition of more waste than a resource can accommodate.
🗑
|
||||
| Potential reserve | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Maintenance of a resource in its present condition, with as little human impact as possible.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The amount of a resource remaining in discovered deposits.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Particles from a nuclear reaction that emit radiation; contact with such particles may be harmful or lethal to people and must therefore be safely stored for thousands of years.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A resource that has a theoretically unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use
🗑
|
||||
| show | A place to deposit solid waste, where a layer of earth is bulldozed over garbage each day to reduce emissions of gases and odors from the decaying trash, to minimize fires, and to discourage vermin.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The level of development that can be maintained in a country without depleting resources to the extent that future generations will be unable to achieve a comparable level of development.
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
delsadancer
Popular AP Human Geography sets