Environmental Studies Flashcards
What are greenhouse gases
Gases which trap heat the atmosphere
What is global warming
A rise in Earth’s average temperature as a result of the enhanced greenhouse effect
What is the greenhouse effect
Warming of the earth’s surface why greenhouse gases trapping heat in the atmosphere
What’s a carbon footprint
Amount of carbon dioxide released into the air because of individual or group energy needs
What is the desertification
Process in which fertile land becomes desert
Two main forms of greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide and methane
Two main forms of greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide and methane
What is wetland
Because some saturated prime monthly or seasonally with water
What is irrigation
Spy of water to land or crops to help growth
What is the sewage system
She was carrying sewage to a sewage plant our place of water treatment
What is sewage
Liquid waste
What is eutrophication
Excessive itchiness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water frequently due to runoff from the land which causes of dance off of plant life
Thermal pollution
Beating of water caused by using water and the cooling of power stations and industry
Define monoculture
Growing of one type of crop over large areas of land you after year depleting the nutrients and water supplies
