Part 1. Identify! Choose 7 of the terms below. In at least 2 sentences, explain
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Question
Part 1. Identify! Choose 7 of the terms below. In at least 2 sentences, explain the meaning of each, and explain how it relates to resource/environmental issues. Specify which terms you are identifying.
Three Gorges Dam
“Cap and Trade”
Neoliberalism
Virtual Water
Structural Adjustment
PET
Aral Sea
Tonle Sap
Greenhouse Gases
Cochabamba, Bolivia (water privatization)
Yucca Mountain
“Mountain Top Removal”/strip mining
Bisphenol A
Precautionary principle
Biomagnification
Gulf Dead Zone
Hypoxia
Hydraulic Fracturing
Ocean “garbage (plastic) patches”
Explanation / Answer
•Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydroelectric project in Beijing.The dam has been plagued floating archipelagoes of garbage and landslides on the banks along the vast expanse of still water on the Yangtze River
•Aral sea:In 1960s the Soviet government decided to divert rivers so that they could irrigate the desert region to improve agriculture. Then the water level in the Aral Sea started decreasing drastically from the 1960s onward. It was the fourth largest lake in the world once. The eastern basin of the aral sea is completely dry now.
• Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository is to be a deep geological repository storage facility in Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel in the United States.It is in a desert location which is far from population.
•Biomagnification means the increase of contaminated substances in the food chains which arise from intoxicated or contaminated environments. The contaminants include mercury, arsenic, pesticides like DDT.
•Tonle Sap,a lake in Cambodia.people are Tackling different dimensions of water-related conflicts. Water and resource conflicts in Tonle Sap are strongly related to overuse of existing property which have lead to increasing tensions in the area.
•The Greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone.Concentration, or abundance of these gases is the amount of a particular gas in the air. Larger emissions of these gases results in higher concentrations in the atmosphere. Concentrations of the Greenhouse gases are measured in parts per million, parts per billion and parts per trillion.
•Hydraulic well fracturing is the process of pumping fluid into a wellbore which creates pressure to fracture the rock layer. Proppant helps keep the fractures open to allow oil and gas to go in the well.