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Grade 9 Geography – Unit 1 – State of the World – Global Warming Environment Solutions Human Impacts Water Resources Water Pollution 11111 22222 33333 44444 55555 Things to do
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Investing money in research to find a future solution
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What is Technological Hope?
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Stopping or solving the problem
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What is Mitigation?
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Changing behaviours to match the environmental change.
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What is Adaptation?
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Accept the change.
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What is “Do Nothing”?
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The solutions of Global Warming
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What are the four environmental solutions listed above?
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The combination of small inputs leading to a large response.
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What is PROBLEM of SCALE?
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Heat does this to a chemical reaction
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What is SPEEDS UP the rate of the reaction?
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Group of people in Canadian society most vulnerable to Global Warming changes
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What are poor people?
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A chronic respiratory disease, in which the airways unexpectedly and suddenly narrow.
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What is asthma?
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People who leave their land due to environmental change.
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What is Environmental Refugee?
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The only thing I truly control and can change
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What is myself?
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What you do when you leave a room at night
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What is turn out the lights?
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Bikes or walking
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What is non-motorized transportation?
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Another name for using less water or other natural resources
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What is conservation?
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Using things over and over
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What is Recycling?
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The three states of water.
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What are gas, liquid and solid?
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Areas of land that over saturated, permanently or seasonally, with water.
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What are wetlands?
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In 2000, seven people in this Ontario town died after drinking town-supplied water contaminated by E. coli bacteria..
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What is Walkerton?
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The number of people, most children, who die each year from water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, guinea worm and hepatitis.
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What is 2 million?
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Earth is called the “Blue Planet” because nearly this percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by water.
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What is 75%?
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The two plant nutrients that are “limited” in quantities in an aquatic setting.
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What are nitrogen and phosphorus?
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The type of bacteria measured to determine whether water is contaminated with other bacteria
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What is E. coli?
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A chemical compound that does NOT easily degrade or breakdown in the natural environment.
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What is a Persistent Toxic Contaminant?
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The storage and buildup of chemicals within the natural tissues of an organism.
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What is bioaccumulate?
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The outcome of human activities that increase plant nutrients in water
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What is Nutrient Enrichment?
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