9.3 Technology and the Environment

Question 1

Green Party

Answer 1

A polticial group focused on environmental issues.

Question 2

Green Belt Movement

Answer 2

A political and environmental awareness movement to protect wilderness areas from urban growth.

Question 3

Deforestation

Answer 3

When forests are removed to make way for agricultural or other man driven needs.

Question 4

Desertification

Answer 4

Removal of natural vegetation cover through expansion and intensive use of land in arid and semi-arid regions

Question 5

Air quality is usually a measurement of what?

Answer 5

The degree of pollutants in the air

Question 6

Greenhouse gases

Answer 6

Carbon dioxide and other pollutants that build up in the atmosphere, making it harder for heat to escape Earth

Question 7

Water scarcity

Answer 7

A lack of access to water sources

Question 8

Paris Agreement

Answer 8

A 2015 agreement signed by 195 countries to implement measures to fight climate change.

Question 9

Carbon footprint

Answer 9

the amount of carbon dioxide a person produces

Question 10

Anthropocene

Answer 10

An era proposed by scientists who believe the Earth has left the Holocene era and now exists in a time where everything is affected by man.

Question 11

Kyoto Protocol

Answer 11

The first international agreement to remove carbon emissions. The U.S. did not ratify the agreement.