G.E. 10 Chapters 1, 2, & 3

• Term used to describe the use of mineral resources for economic growth

  Mineral exploitation
• Term used to describe the area of Earth's Terrestrial surface encompassing all attributes of biosphere

  Land Resource
• Main role of forest in temperature regulation

  Absorbing heat
• Energy form is derived from the movement of charge particles

  Electrical energy
• Energy source is known for its clea burning properties and high hearing values

  Natural Gas
• Type of natural resources include plants, animals, and fossil fuels

  Living or biotic resources
• Total conditions of surrounding a point in space and time 


  Environment
• Describe as the protective blanket of gases surrounding the earth

  Atmosphere
• Percentage of Earth's water supply is in the oceans

  97%
• Factor has caused soil salinity and damage to the physical structure of soil according to the content

  High yielding varieties
• What should be integrated to conserve forest

  Modern knowledge and skills
• Term used to describe the process where organisms form social groups and organization at different levels

  Social Environment
• When man's exploitative functions exceed the critical limit, what happens to the equilibrium of the environment?

  It is disturbed
• Aspect of man involves establishing social institutions and formulating laws

  Social Man
• Term used to describe the division of biotic environment into floral and faunal environment

  Biodiversity
• Classified as part of lithosphere environment

  Mountain environment
• Influences life and nature of individual behavior in social environment

  Moral, Cultural and emotional forces
• Term used by Kurt Lewis 


  Life space
• Main reason for the loss of genetic diversity in wild population

  Isolation of populations
• Major challenge associated with coping with rapid urbanization

  Lack of sewage facilties
• Advantage of wind power relayed t its impact on thermal burden of the earth

  Does not add to burden
• Drawback of coal related to its high-water content

  High water content reduces heating values
• Drawbacks of Coa related to its physical transport

  Difficult physical transportation
• Primary reason for drilling wells deep into the earth's surface in geothermal energy extraction

  To access geothermal reservoirs
• Drawback of crude oil as an energy source

  Leads to carbon emissions
• Geothermal energy primarily sourced from

  Magma
• 2015, total electricity was generated by hydropower


  16.6%
• Largest proportion of solar electricity in the world in 2014

  Italy
• Energy released by splitting atoms in nuclear reaction

  Nuclear energy
• Primary reason for decrease in global carbon stocks in forest biome in the last 25 years 


  Conversion to other land uses
• Type of forest characterized by cold temperatures and coniferous tress

  Boreal forest
• Mineral resource primarily responsible for sustaining about 80% of world's energy consumption 


  Coal
• Individual -> Population -> Community -> Ecosystem -> Biome -> Biosphere

  Misra 1991