9.3 Technology and the Environment Flashcards
Green Party
A polticial group focused on environmental issues.
Green Belt Movement
A political and environmental awareness movement to protect wilderness areas from urban growth.
Deforestation
When forests are removed to make way for agricultural or other man driven needs.
Desertification
Removal of natural vegetation cover through expansion and intensive use of land in arid and semi-arid regions
Air quality is usually a measurement of what?
The degree of pollutants in the air
Greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide and other pollutants that build up in the atmosphere, making it harder for heat to escape Earth
Water scarcity
A lack of access to water sources
Paris Agreement
A 2015 agreement signed by 195 countries to implement measures to fight climate change.
Carbon footprint
the amount of carbon dioxide a person produces
Anthropocene
An era proposed by scientists who believe the Earth has left the Holocene era and now exists in a time where everything is affected by man.
Kyoto Protocol
The first international agreement to remove carbon emissions. The U.S. did not ratify the agreement.
