Ecology Human Impact Vocab

Agriculture

• the raising of aquatic animals for human consumption
• the practice of farming, including growing plants and raising animals
• A process by which nutrients, particularly phosphorus and nitrogen, become highly concentrated in a body of water, leading to increased growth of organisms such as algae or cyanobacteria.
• A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame.

Deforestation

• an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans
• The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
• the process of using natural resources without depleting them
• the raising of aquatic animals for human consumption

Aquaculture

• refers to the sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all the organisms living on Earth today
• thinning of Earth's ozone layer caused by CFC's leaking into the air and reacting chemically with the ozone, breaking the ozone molecules apart
• A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame.
• the raising of aquatic animals for human consumption

Industrial Revolution

• Chlorofluorocarbons. Man made chemicals used as coolants and propellants in aerosols. Potent greenhouse gases that also lead to depletion of the ozone layer.
• rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids from pollution
• the increase in the average temperature of the biosphere.
• A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s

Pollutant

• Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases
• a mixture of chemicals in the air that appears as a haze in the atmosphere
• A process by which nutrients, particularly phosphorus and nitrogen, become highly concentrated in a body of water, leading to increased growth of organisms such as algae or cyanobacteria.
• harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land, air, or water

Greenhouse Effect

• A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
• thinning of Earth's ozone layer caused by CFC's leaking into the air and reacting chemically with the ozone, breaking the ozone molecules apart
• Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases
• refers to the variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the living world.

Climate Change

• the process of using natural resources without depleting them
• concentrations of a harmful
• a mixture of chemicals in the air that appears as a haze in the atmosphere
• a change in global or regional climate patterns

Global Warming

• the process of using natural resources without depleting them
• the increase in the average temperature of the biosphere.
• A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
• Chemicals that kill crop-destroying organisms

Smog

• Chlorofluorocarbons. Man made chemicals used as coolants and propellants in aerosols. Potent greenhouse gases that also lead to depletion of the ozone layer.
• The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
• a mixture of chemicals in the air that appears as a haze in the atmosphere
• Natural resources that can be replaced within our lifetime

Emissions

• Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases
• The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
• Supplying land with water through a network of canals
• gases released into the air, especially by cars and factories