MST

Question 1

is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock.

Answer 1

Agriculture

Question 2

provides most of the world’s food and fabrics.

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Agriculture

Question 3

under this more than 800 million people currently do not get enough food to meet their nutritional needs every day.

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food and water

Question 4

Provides wood for construction and paper products

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Agriculture

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It includes the preparation of plant and animal products for people to use and their distribution to markets.

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Agriculture

Question 6

The UN currently projects that we will need this percentage of more food by 2050

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70%

Question 7

currently this percentage of extinction threats to mammals and birds are due to agriculture.

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80%

Question 7

Two of the most significant threats to biodiversity.

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Habitats

Question 8

is an absolute basic human necessity, and each person adds to demand threats to this.

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Water

Question 9

The United Nations has calculated that water shortages as a result of climate change could displace hundreds of millions of people by this year

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2030

Question 10

refers to atmospheric conditions that occur locally over short periods of time—from minutes to hours or days.

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Weather

Question 11

refers to the long-term (usually at least 30 years) regional or even global average of temperature, humidity, and rainfall patterns over seasons, years, or decades.

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Climate

Question 12

is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates.

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Climate change

Question 13

is happened through the natural processes that influence the surface water and groundwater quality by various sources such as climate changes, natural disasters, geological factors, soil-matrix, and hyporheic exchange.

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Water quality

Question 14

are essential for life as we know it, in cultivated farmland, sustainability, human consumption, economic development, and environmental systems.

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Water resources

Question 15

contaminations (specifically in rivers and streams) are mainly due to urbanization, agriculture, and manufacturing discharge.

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Surface water

Question 16

released by agriculture activities include metals, pesticides, pathogens, nutrients, and salts that inlfluence surface water

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Pollutants

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When this is polluted with toxic chemical compounds through human activities it can become unsuitable for several years.

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Ground water

Question 18

Non-carbon-based materials are referred to as inorganic pollutants.

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Inorganic Substances

Question 19

is the long-term heating of Earth’s surface observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere.

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Global Warming

Question 20

refers to the decrease in forest areas across the world that are lost for other uses such as agricultural croplands, urbanization, or mining activities.

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Deforestation

Question 21

Greatly accelerated by human activities since 1960, deforestation has been negatively affecting natural ecosystems, biodiversity, and the climate.

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Deforestation

Question 22

include natural forest fires or parasite-caused diseases which can result in deforestation. Nevertheless, human activities are among the main causes of global deforestation.

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Natural Factors

Question 23

definition is an area or region’s population growing to such an extent that it becomes unsustainable given the available resources

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Overpopulation

Question 24

If humans were rare or an endangered species, then overpopulation would never become a problem

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Overpopulation

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is an activity that results in a serious reduction of a species’ population or harm to wildlife.

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Fish and other aquatic species

Question 26

means harvesting species from the wild at rates faster than natural populations can recover.

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Overexploitation

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are both types of overexploitation.

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Overfishing and overhunting

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Overhunting

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is as real and scary as it truly sounds.

Question 29

measures the date on which humanity’s cumulative use of resources each given year surpasses the planet’s natural capacity (or biological capital).

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Earth Overshoot Day