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Visual Vocabulary

Explore the Visual Vocabulary of environmental terms such as leachate, leapingfrogging, life cycle analysis, and lithosphere. Learn about their applications in soil pollution, waste disposal laws, and ecosystem sustainability.

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Visual Vocabulary

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  1. Visual Vocabulary leachate - lithosphere

  2. Leachate • Liquid that contains elevated levels of pollutants as a result of having passed through municipal solid waste or contaminated soil • Application • Soil pollution and MSW disposal

  3. leaching • The transportation of dissolved molecules through the soil via groundwater • Application • Soil pollution and groundwater

  4. leapfrogging • The situation in which less developed countries use newer technology without first using the precursor technology • Application • Resource distribution

  5. levee • An enlarged bank built up on each side of a river to prevent flooding • Application • Soil erosion prevention

  6. Life cycle analysis • A systems tool that looks at the materials used and released throughout the manufacturing use, and disposal of a product • Application • Waste disposal laws and methods

  7. Life expectancy • The average number of years that an infant born in a particular year in a particular country can be expected to live, given the current life span and death rate in that country • Application • Demographic transitions

  8. Limiting nutrient • A nutrient required for the growth of an organism but available in a lower quantity than other nutrients • Application • Ecosystem sustainability

  9. Limiting resource • A resource that a population cannot live without and that occurs in quantities lower than the population would require to increase in size • Application • Resource availability and resource conservation

  10. Limnetic zone • A zone of open water in lakes and ponds • Application • Water resources and ocean levels

  11. lipids • Smaller organic biological molecules that do not mix with water • Application • Water pollution

  12. Lithosphere • The outermost layer of Earth, including the mantle and crust • Application • Soil pollution and rock formation

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