A | B |
Population size | Getting bigger at a faster and faster rate |
Food production | Needs to be increased to keep a larger population alive |
Waste removal | Needs to be increased to keep a growing population. Perhaps using landfill sites. |
Energy | Bigger populations need more of this. Providing it using up fossil fuels and causing pollution. |
Pest control | Biological or chemical destruction of harmful insects |
Ladybirds | Both adults and larvae eat aphids |
Parasitic wasps | Their larvae grow inside living caterpillars |
Biological control | Using predators or parasites to kill harmful insects |
Insecticide | Chemicals used to kill harmful insects |
Herbicide | Chemicals used to kill weeds |
Selective | A chemical which only kills the organisms you want to kill |
Resistance | What pests develop, faster than we can think of new pesticides |
DDT | Chemical which was used as a pesticide and is now banned because it builds up in top consumers and kills them too |
Pollination | A job done by bees. Its a shame pesticides have killed millions of them |
Fruit | Only made by fruit trees which have been pollinated |
Sulphur dioxide | Recats with rain to produce sulphuric acid |
Nitrogen oxides | Recat with rain to produce nitric acid |
Coal fired | Power stations which cause most acid rain |
Power stations | Source of most sulphur dioxide |
Nuclear | Type of power station which produces no harmful gases but produces radioactive waste |
Acid rain | Caused by sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides when they react with water |
Fish eggs | Don't hatch in acidified lakes |
Greenhouse effect | Caused by carbon dioxide and methane |
Limestone | A sedimentary rock, destroyed by acid rain |
Carbon dioxide | A greenhouse gas absorbed by trees |
Methane | A flammable greenhouse gas produced by cattle |
Increase | What will happen to the sea level due to the greenhouse effect |
Polar ice caps | Melting, due to the greenhouse effect |
Gulf stream | An ocean current which may be diverted by the greenhouse effect. The UK would then get colder. |
Extinction | What will happen to lots of organisms if the climate changes |
Atmosphere | Where greenhouse gases build up |
Long wave | Radiation trapped by greenhouse gases |
Short wave | Solar radiation which passes straight through greenhouse gases |
Ultraviolet | A cancer causing, short wave radiation from the sun |
Infra red | The proper name for long wave heat radiation |
Endangered | Animals which are close to extinction |
Conservation | The process of trying to manage habitats to stop organisms dying |
Medicine | Useful chemicals found in many tropical plants |
Deforestation | What is happening to many tropical forests |
Logging | Type of organisation which make most money from destroying tropical rainforests |