Vocab from our final unit of the year.
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| population | all the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time
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| carrying capacity | the largest number of individuals of a given species that Earth’s resources can support and maintain for a long period of time
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| desertification | the development of desert-like conditions due to human activities and/or climate change
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| urban sprawl | the development of land for houses and other buildings near a city
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| deforestation | the removal of large areas of forest for human purposes
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| reforestation | process of planting trees to replace trees that have been cut or burned down
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| reclamation | a process in which mined land must be recovered with soil and replanted with vegetation
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| runoff | the portion of precipitation that moves over land and eventually reaches streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans
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| point-source pollution | pollution from a single source that can be identified
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| nonpoint-source pollution | pollution from several widespread sources that cannot be traced back to a single location
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| global warming | an increase in the average temperature of Earth’s surface
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| greenhouse gas | a gas in the atmosphere that absorbs Earth’s outgoing infrared radiation
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| sustainability | conserving natural resources in order to maintain ecological balance
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| ecology | a branch of biology that studies how organisms interact with their environment
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| Earth’s systems (spheres) | atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, anthroposphere
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| positive feedback loop | a system where once it gets out of balance, continues to get farther away from balanced
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| albedo | the amount of incoming sunlight that is reflected
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| landfill | a place where trash is buried in the ground
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| ecological footprint | compares how many resources people use to how quickly Earth can replace those resources
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| Earth overshoot day | the day when we’ve used up more resources than the Earth can replace in one calendar year. (8/2/2017)
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