Human Impact Vocab Review

The process of replanting trees to replace trees that have been cut down or have burned.

• Urbanization

• Greenhouse Effect

• Reforestation

• Deforestation

The natural process that occurs when certain gases in the atmosphere absorb and send back radiation from the sun.

• Global Warming

• Greenhouse Gases

• Natural Resources

• Climate

A gas in the atmosphere that absorbs the radiation going away from the Earth.

• Greenhouse Gases

• Sticky Gases

• Acid Precipitation

• Pollution

The overall increase in the average temperatures of Earth's surface.

• Climate

• Conservaton

• Deforestation

• Global Warming

The term used to describe long term average weather conditions for the Earth.

• Climate

• Doppler Radar

• Reclamation

• Greenhouse Gases

A type of precipitation that has a lower pH than that of normal rainwater.

• Basic Precipitation

• Acid Precipitation

• Pain Rain

• Greenhouse Effect

The contamination of air by harmful substances including gases and smoke

• Greenhouse Gases

• Air Pollution

• Global Warming

• Natural Resources

The term used to talk about all of the water that exists on the earth or at ant point during the water cycle.

• Hydrosphere

• Greenhouse Gases

• Global Warming

• Coral Bleaching

An area of permeable, or hollow, ground that holds large amounts of water.

• Climate

• Aquifer

• Hydrosphere

• Global Warming

A process during which areas that have been cleared out for human use are replanted with soil, trees, and other vegetation to return life to an area.

• Reclamation

• Air Pollution

• Agricultural Runoff

• Deforestation