Environmental Quiz #4

• Fault refers to a giant crack in a rock that makes up the Earth's surface
• Filtration is a treatment process, under the control of qualified operators, for removing solid matter from water by means of porous media such as sand or a man-made filter ; often used to remove particles that contain pathogen
• Flash flood is a flood that occurs within a few hours (usually less than six) of heavy or excessive rainfall, dam or levee failure
• Fogging refers to applying a pesticide by rapidly heating the liquid chemical so that if forms very fine droplets that resembles smoke or fog
• Food chain is a series of steps by which energy is obtained, used and transformed by living things ; it's the linear series of organisms illustrating a one-way route of feeding relationship
• Food pyramid provides a detailed view of energy flow in an ecosystem
• Food web is composed of interconnected food chains by which energy and material circulate within an ecosystem
• Forest ecosystem includes plant and animal communities, predominantly of trees or other woody vegetation, occupying an extensive area of land
• Forest is an area not less than one hectare and 60 meters wide consisting of tree, plants and animals
• Fossil fuel is a fuel derived from ancient organic remains (peat, coal, oil and natural gas)
• Garbage is one of the greatest problems specially in the city
• Glacial drift is a general term for rock material transported by glaciers or iceberg and deposited directly on land or in the sea
• Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere
• Greenhouse effect is the natural warming of the Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane and oxides
• Greenhouse gas (GHG) refer to a gas such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide which contributes to potential climate change
• Greenpeace campaigned in industrialized countries to reduce and eventually eliminate environmental pollution and degradation
• Ground water basin a general term used to define a group water flow system that has defined boundaries and may include permeable materials that are capable of storing or furnishing a significant water supply
• Ground water is the supply of fresh water found beneath the Earth's surface, usually in qualifiers, which supply spring and wells
• Gully erosion refers to severe erosion in which trenches are cut to a depth greater than 30 centimeters
• Gust is a strong wind
• Habitat is the place where a population lives and its surroundings
• Hail is the precipitation in the form of lumps of ice associated with thunderstorms
• Haribon Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources, Inc. or Haribon Foundation, is a nature conservation organization in the Philippines, the name "HARIBON" (bird king) is a reference to the Philippine Eagle, the group was founded in 1972 as a bird-watching society
• Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky
• Herbivores are consumers that eat only plants