1. Environmental Unit VOCABULARY

2. ABIOTIC FACTORS  NON LIVING FACTORS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

3. ACID RAIN  POLLUTED WATER COMING FROM THE SKY

4. AGRICULTURE  TRADITIONAL – FARMING RELYING ON HUMAN AND ANIMAL POWER  ALTERNATIVE – HAND TOOLS AND NON-MOTORIZED MACHINES

5. AIR POLLUTANTS  RELEASE OF DAMAGING MATERIALS IN THE ATMOSPHERE.

6. ALTERNATIVE ENERGY  WIND  SOLAR  GEOTHERMAL  WAVE  NUCLEAR  HYDROELECTRIC  TIDAL

7. AQUACULTURE  TRADITIONAL – BREEDING OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS FOR FOOD  ALTERNATIVE - IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT

8. AQUIFER DEPLETION  OVERUSE OF UNDERGROUND WATER STORAGES

9. BIODEGRADABLE  DECOMPOSABLE

10. BIODIVERSITY  VARIETY OF ORGANISMS

11. BIO FUELS  ORGANIC SOURCES OF FUEL

12. BIOME  SIMILAR BIOTIC CONDITIONS - HOMES

13. BIOSPHERE  ALL LIFE ON EARTH

14. BIOTIC FACTORS  LIVING ORGANISMS

15. CARRYING CAPACITY  LARGEST POPULATION A GIVEN ENVIRONMENT CAN SUPPORT

16. CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons)  CHLORINE, FLUORINE AND CARBON COMBINED

17. CLEAN AIR ACT  STRICT STANDARDS FOR AIR QUALITY BY THE GOVERNMENT

18. CLEAN WATER ACT  STRICT STANDARDS FOR WATER QUALITY BY THE GOVERNMENT

19. CLEAR CUTTING (deforestation)  CUT ALL THE TREES AT ONE TIME.

20. CLIMATE  AVERAGE WEATHER OVER TIME FOR A GIVEN AREA

21. CONSERVATION  SAVING  PRESERVATION

22. ECOLOGICAL (carbon) FOOTPRINT  YOUR PERSONAL IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT

23. ECO LOGY  THE STUDY OF HOW ORGANISMS INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER AND THE ENVIRONMENT

24. ECOSYSTEM  ALL LIVING THINGS WITHIN AN AREA

25. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE  THE STUDY OF THE NATURAL WORLD

26. ENVIRONMENTALIST  A PERSON WHO IS DEDICATED TO PROTECTING THE NATURAL WORLD.

27. EUTROPHICATION  INTRODUCTION OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHOROUS TO PRODUCE ALGAE AND OTHER PRODUCERS.

28. EXTINCTION  DISAPPEARANCE OF AN ORGANISM

29. FOOD WEB  PREY VS. PREDATOR  FOOD CHAIN – SERIES OF FEEDING RELATIONSHIPS

30. FOSSIL FUELS  FORMED FROM FORMER LIVING ORGANISMS. EX: COAL, OIL

31. GLOBAL WARMING  AN INCREASE IN EARTH’S AVERAGE TEMPERATURES.

32. GREENHOUSE GASES  GASES THAT TRAP HEAT NEAR EARTH

33. LAND POLLUTANTS  TRASH

34. MINING  BREAKING GROUND TO ACCESS FOSSILS AND MINERALS

35. NATIVE SPECIES  ORIGINAL  INVASIVE SPECIES – FOREIGN, INTRODUCED

36. NATURAL RESOURCES  EXAMPLES: SUN, WATER, WIND

37. NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION  COMES FROM MANY PLACES  POINT SOURCE POLLUTION – COMES FROM A SPECIFIC (ONE) LOCATION

38. NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES  TAKES TOO LONG TO GET MORE  RENEWABLE RESOURCES – QUICKLY REPLENISHED.

39. NON-SUSTAINABLE  Not able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future demand.  SUSTAINABLE – able to meet the current demand

40. NUCLEAR POWER (FUSION)  Conversion of energy within an atom’s nucleus by forcing together.  Opposite is fission (pull apart)

41. OCEAN ACIDIFICATION  INCREASING POLLUTANTS IN THE OCEAN CHANGE IN pH.

42. POPULATION CRISIS  Overpopulated area  More people = More need for resources  CONSUMPTION CRISIS: too much use

43. RANCHING  Raising livestock (FARMING)

44. R4R4  REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, REFUSE

45. REFORESTATION  PLANT TREES BACK WHEN YOU CUT THEM DOWN

46. RUNOFF  WATER FLOWING OVER LAND INTO STREAMS OR RIVERS

47. SMOG  POLLUTANTS IN THE AIR – THICK LAYER OF OZONE

48. TRADITIONAL ENERGY  FOSSIL FUEL BURNING; CO 2 RELEASING

49. WATER POLLUTANTS  POLLUTIOIN IN THE WATER.