Unit 5 & 6 Vocabulary Review

Natural resource, such as fresh air and most groundwater, that can be used indefinitely without causing a reduction in the available supply.

• energy efficiency

• renewable resources

• nonrenewable resources

• sustainable energy

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Resource that exists in Earth’s crust in a fixed amount and can be replaced only by geological, physical or chemical processes that take hundreds of millions of years.

• energy efficiency

• renewable resources

• nonrenewable resources

• sustainable energy

Natural heating of Earth’s surface by certain atmospheric gases, which helps keep Earth warm enough to sustain life.

• climatology

• global warming

• greenhouse effect

• acid rain

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Which of the following are considered fossil fuels?

• coal

• petroleum

• natural gas

• carbon dioxide

Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas?

• Methane

• Nitrous Oxide

• Water Vapor

• Helium

_______ is the study of the Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present and future climatic changes.

• fracking

• atmospherology

• forecasting

• climatology

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Forests are cleared to make way for any of a long list of agricultural products and other human activities. The removal of trees from a forested area without adequate replanting, often using clear-cutting, which may result in a loss of topsoil and water pollution is known as ______________ .

• infiltration

• woodworking

• fracking

• deforestation

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Acid rain is any precipitation with a pH of less than 5.0.

• True

• False

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Urban area where the climate is warmer than in the surrounding countryside due to factors such as numerous concrete buildings and large expanses of asphalt.

• microclimates

• urban blight

• heat islands

• greenhouse effect

The Köppen Climate Classification System, a widely used classification system developed by German botanist-climatologist Wladimir Köppen, defines climatic boundaries based on the mean monthly values of wind and precipitation, as well as types of vegetation.

• false

• true

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