Human impact Flashcards
Rise in Earth’s average surface temperature during the past 100 years
Global warming
Large-scale cutting and/or burning of forests
Deforestation
A gas in the atmosphere that absorbs Earth’s outgoing infrared radiation
Greenhouse gas/gases
Natural process that occurs when certain gases in the atmosphere absorb and reradiate thermal energy from the Sun
Greenhouse affect
Largest number of individuals of a given species that Earth’s resources can support and maintain for a long period of time
Carrying Capacity
All the members of a species living in a given area
population
Natural source of supply or support
Resource
Development of desertlike conditions due to human activities and/or climate change
Desertafacation
Portion of precipitation that moves over land and eventually reaches streams, rivers, lakes and oceans
Runoff
Development of land near a city to build houses and other buildings
Urban sprawl
What is true of the greenhouse effect?
It traps thermal energy from the sun
the type of population growth does the graph represent?
Logistics
two ways that humans can negatively impact the environment?
Deforastation and Runoff of chemicals into a river
the following would be an example of particulate matter pollution?
A wildfire realising soot into the air
greenhouse gas are human activities emmitting into the atmosphere the most?
Carbon Dioxide
