Environmental Quiz Flashcards
The policy of keeping land areas uninhabited or natural
CONSERVATIONISM
To merge or mix things together
INTEGRATE
Desertification IS/IS NOT caused by humans.
IS
____ is when there is not enough food.
FAMINE
____ of Africa is in danger of desertification.
1/3
____ is an effect of desertification.
POVERTY, DISEASE, MIGRATION, FAMINE…
a natural resource which can replenish with the passage of time
Renewable Resources
a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human time-frames
Non-Renewable Resources
Development of land or water to make it more profitable or productive or useful.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
____ land is fertile soil.
ARABLE
____ is when it does not rain or rains very little over a long period of time.
DROUGHT
____ is the spread of deserts.
DESERTIFICATION
____ is the clearing of forests.
DEFORESTATION
____ is the location of the Congo Rainforest.
THE CONGO BASIN
____ is the largest desert in southern Africa.
THE KALAHARI
____ is the largest river in west Africa.
THE NIGER
The ____ plain is where Simba lives, in northern Tanzania.
SERENGETI
Medicine taken to prevent a disease
VACCINE
Internal (either within a home or a nation)
DOMESTIC:
The removal of something
ELIMINATION
Makes something stronger and harder to break into
FORTIFICATION
Something with lesser numbers or power
MINORITY
“about”, to guess the amount of
APPROXIMATE
