Human impact vocab Part 1

Resources such as food, solar power, that can be easily replaced are

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• resource

Nonrenewable resource example would be

• fossil fuels and minerals

• trees and bunnies

• solar enery

• carbon dioxide and oxygen

The process by which water continually moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back is called

• carbon cycle

• water cycle

• energy cycle

• nitrogen cycle

The destruction or removal of species from their habitats is known as

• poaching

• hunting

• direct harvesting

• ecological succession

deforestation is known as

• the loss of trees due to forest fire

• loss of trees because of disease

• loss of forest due to human activity

the development of an economy in which machines produce many of the products people use.

• technology

• human involvement

• industrialization

• ecological succession

Global warming is known as

• greenhouse gases

• the result of Earth's average temperature is rising

• why it rained yesterday

• how we have seasons

the release of certain industrial gases into the atmosphere has lead to destruction of much of the

• greenhouse gas

• global warming

• pollution

• ozone shield/layer

The following could lead to changes in climate patterns and even to the melting of ice caps at the North and South Poles

• greenhouse gases

• global warming

• ozone shield

The layer of ozone gas in the upper atmosphere that protects Earth from some of the sun's radiation

• greenhouse gas

• ozone shield/layer