SST's Flashcards
What is Biodiverse
Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms. This includes terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
What is deforestation
Deforestation is when humans remove or thin forests for lumber or to use the land where the trees stood for crops, grazing, extraction (mining, oil, or gas), or development as the population increases and people migrate.
What is dural Temperature?
Diurnal temperature is the variation in high and low temperature on a given day.
Grazing
Grazing is allowing livestock to directly consume the growing forage; grasses, legumes, and forbs, in a pasture or rangeland.
Anthropogenic
Environmental change usually from human activity
Crop yeilds
Topography
The general landscape of an area such as mountains and rivers. the art or practice of showing on maps or charts the heights and depths of the features of a place
Sowing and irrigation
The planting and growing of seeds and supply water to grow and harvest crops
Climate
The weather conditions in an area over a long period of time affecting flora,fauna and the landscape