GA Vocab Quiz 1

A person who designs buildings and advises in their construction.

• Green Architecture

• Sustainable

• Architect

The art or science of building; specifically: the art or practice of designing and building structures, especially habitable ones.

• Green Architecture

• Architect

• Architecture

An approach to building that minimizes harmful effects on human health and the environment.

• Green Architecture

• Renewable Resources

• Conservation

Renewable sources such as building materials, utilities, and resources that have increased environmental benefits.

• Green Architecture

• Sustainable

• Conservation

Official caretaking of rivers, forests, and other natural resources in order to preserve and protect them through prudent management. Careful utilization to prevent depletion of resources.

• Renewable Resources

• recycled components

• Conservation

Materials and natural resources that can be replaced, such as wind, solar, or hydroelectric power

• Renewable Resources

• recycled components

• Local sourcing

Getting materials from a near by source. Relying on regionally available resources.

• recycled components

• Climate change

• Local sourcing

Materials used in a home that were salvaged or are made from re-useable materials. One example is wood flooring made from salvaged timber from old barns. Also known as re-purposed.

• Climate change

• recycled components

• Local sourcing

Also called climate destabilization or greenhouse effect, this term represents the adverse effects of greenhouse gases on long term weather patterns.

• Climate change

• Greenhouse Effect

• recycled components

An atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere, but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.

• Greenhouse Effect

• Greenhouse gases

• Carbon footprint