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The contamination of water due to natural or human made contaminants
What is water pollution?
Water pollution that comes from one specific site.
What is point source pollution?
Water pollution that comes from many small sources.
What is nonpoint-source pollution?
Water that is suitable to drink.
What is potable?
This occurs when human activity increases nutrient levels in water.
What is artificial eutrophication?
The growth of urban areas caused by people moving into cities.
What is urbanization?
The process by which human activity and natural processes damage land where it can no longer support the local ecosystem.
What is land degradation?
The process by which land becomes more desert like and unable to support life.
What is desertification?
The removal of trees and other vegetation from an area.
What is deforestation?
When urbanization occurs at the edge of a city or town.
What is urban sprawl?
The contamination of the atmosphere by pollutants from human and natural sources.
What is air pollution?
The way by which certain gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor and carbon dioxide, absorb and reradiate thermal energy.
The way by which certain gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor and carbon dioxide, absorb and reradiate thermal energy.
What is the greenhouse effect?
A tiny solid particle that is suspended in air or water.
What is a particulate?
This forms when ground level ozone reacts with vehicle exhaust.
What is smog?
Chemicals that deplete the ozone layer.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
The wise use of natural resources.
What is conservation?
Energy resources made from carbon-rich plant and animal remains.
What are fossil fuels?
The careful and responsible management of a resource.
What is stewardship?
An energy source that can be easily reproduced or replaced by nature.
What is a renewable resource?
The process by which a damaged land area is returned to nearly the condition it was in before people used it.
What is reclamation?
An energy source that cannot be produced, grown, or restored as fast as it is used.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Any heating of natural water that results from human activity.
What is thermal pollution?
When live or dead organisms are added to water supplies.
What is biological pollution?
The gas contained in part of the stratosphere that absorbs UV radiation
What is ozone?
The process of planting trees to re-establish forests.
What is reforestation?
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The name of the international agreement that tries to limit the release of greenhouse gases.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?