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Social study vocab 2
Question | Answer |
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Biosphere | Regions of Earth occupied by living organisms, made up of all the ecozones |
Stewardship | Careful management of resources to ensure that they are sustainable |
Permafrost | subsoil that remains frozen all year long |
Carrying Capacity | the largest population that an environment can support |
Deforestation | the process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else |
Global Warming | the observed and projected increase in the earth’s average temperature due to burning of fossil fuels and deforestation |
Ecology | the science concerned with the relationship between living things and the environment. |
Acid Precipitation | any form of precipitation that is high in sulfuric and nitric acids as a result of pollution in air. |
Sustainable Development | |
Earth Summit | |
Agenda 21 | |
Herbicides | |
Pesticides | |
Organic | |
CO2 emissions | |
Biodiversity | |
Ecotourism |