APHG environment vocab
AP human geography words
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ENVIRONMENT!
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- mass depletion
- loss diversity through failure to produce new species
- montreal protocol
- signed in 1987 by 105 countries and the EU. the protocol called for the reduction of productions and consumption of CFCs
- biodiversity
- the total variety of plant and animal species in a particular place
- pangaea
- the supercontinent that broke apart and formed the continents and oceans as we know them today
- solid waste
- non-soluble materials ranging from municipal garbage to sewage sludge,agricultural refuse and ming reidues
- environmental stress
- the threat to environmental security by human activity such as atmospheric and ground water pollution ,deforestation,oil spills,and ocean dumping
- deforestation
- the clearing and destruction of forests to harvest wood for consumption ,clear land fro agricultural uses, and make way for expanding settlement fronteirs
- pacific ring of fire
- volcanism and earthquakes resulting from the tectonic activity along plate boundaries in the region
- sanitary landfill
- disposal sites for non-hazardous solid waste that is spread in layers and compacted to the smallest practical volume
- toxic waste
- hazardous waste causing danger from chemicals and infectious organisms
- radioactive waste
- hazardous-waste-emitting radiation from nuclear places and activity
- mass extinction
- mass destruction of most species
- renewable resources
- resources the can regenerate as they are being exploited
- hydrologic cycle
- the water cycle
- aquifer
- subterranean,porous,water-holding rocks that provide millions of wells of steady flows of water
- atmosphere
- blanket of gas surrounding the earth and located some 350 miles above the earths surface
- oxygen cycle
- cycle where natural processes and human activity consume atmospheric oxygen and produce carbon CO2 and the earths trees and other plants consume CO2 to produce oxygen
- photosynthesis
- the formation of energy by plants by using CO2 and water and sunlight on6H2O + 6CO2---> C6H12O6+ 6O2)
- ozone layer
- acts as a filter for the suns harmful UV rays
- acid rain
- acidified rainwater that severely damages plant and animal life
- soil erosion
- the wearing away of the land surface by wind and moving water
- CFC
- synthetic organic compounds first created in the 1950s and used primarily as refrigerants and as propellants