grade 9 geography – unit 1 – state of the world – global warming environment solutions human...
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Grade 9 Geography – Unit 1 – State of the World – Global Warming
Environment Solutions
Human Impacts
Water Resources
Water Pollution
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Things to do
Investing money in research to find a future solution
What is Technological Hope?
Stopping or solving the problem
What is Mitigation?
Changing behaviours to match the environmental
change.
What is Adaptation?
Accept the change.
What is “Do Nothing”?
The solutions of
Global Warming
What are the four environmental solutions
listed above?
The combination of small inputs leading to a large
response.
What is PROBLEM of SCALE?
Heat does this to a chemical reaction
What is SPEEDS UP the rate of the reaction?
Group of people in Canadian society most vulnerable to Global Warming changes
What are poor people?
A chronic respiratory disease, in which the airways
unexpectedly and suddenly narrow.
What is asthma?
People who leave their land due to environmental
change.
What is Environmental Refugee?
The only thing I truly control and can change
What is myself?
What you do when you leave a room at night
What is turn out the lights?
Bikes or walking
What is non-motorized transportation?
Another name for using less water or other natural
resources
What is conservation?
Using things over and over
What is Recycling?
The three states of water.
What are gas, liquid and solid?
Areas of land that over saturated, permanently or
seasonally, with water.
What are wetlands?
In 2000, seven people in this Ontario town died after
drinking town-supplied water contaminated by E. coli
bacteria. .
What is Walkerton?
The number of people, most children, who die each year from water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, guinea
worm and hepatitis.
What is 2 million?
Earth is called the “Blue Planet”
because nearly this percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by water.
What is 75%?
The two plant nutrients that are “limited” in quantities
in an aquatic setting.
What are nitrogen and phosphorus?
The type of bacteria measured to determine
whether water is contaminated with other
bacteria
What is E. coli?
A chemical compound that does NOT easily degrade
or breakdown in the natural environment.
What is a Persistent
Toxic Contaminant?
The storage and buildup of chemicals within the natural
tissues of an organism.
What is bioaccumulate?
The outcome of human activities that increase plant nutrients in water
What is Nutrient Enrichment?