Unit 5 Most Confusing Vocabulary

What is the process by which a government takes private property for public use, with compensation to the owner?

• Urban Sprawl

• Urbanization

• NEPA

• Eminent Domain

What is the term for the practice of charging different prices for water based on usage levels?

• Positive Feedback Loops

• Unconfined Aquifer

• Eminent Domain

• Tiered water pricing

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Which environmental law requires federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to making decisions?

• NEPA

• Eminent Domain

• EIS

• National Wildlife Refuge

What is a document that evaluates the potential environmental impacts of a proposed project?

• Environmental Impact Statement

• Eminent Domain

• Highway Trust Fund

• environmental mitigation plan

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

What is a plan designed to address the environmental impacts of a project during and after construction?

• environmental impact statement

• environmental mitigation plan

• induced demand

• eminent domain

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

What is the term for the increased demand for a good or service that occurs as the price of the good or service decreases?

• induced demand

• xeriscaping

• urban blight

• distillation

What is the term for landscaping and gardening in ways that reduce or eliminate the need for supplemental water from irrigation? (Used especially in arid areas in the Southwest United States)

• hydroponic agriculture

• drip irrigation

• xeriscaping

• feedlots

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

What is the term for a deteriorating urban area with a high density of poverty and other social problems?

• infill

• urban blight

• urbanization

• surburbia

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

What is the process of purifying a liquid by heating it to create vapor and then cooling the vapor to create a liquid?

• salinization

• distillation

• desertification

• reverse osmosis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

What is the process of forcing a solvent from a region of high solute concentration through a membrane to a region of low solute concentration?

• xeriscaping

• distillation

• reverse osmosis

• salinization