ENVIR 302 - Final Project

3. An unstable gas that can damage living cells -- a layer of it serves as a shield for life on Earth.
5. The creation of gases or radiation.
9. The act of getting rid of something.
10. Fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising those of future generations.
13. To make (something dangerous, dirty, or impure by adding something harmful or undesirable to it.
15. A collection of pieces of information that is organized and used on a computer.
17. The use of resources.
18. The degradation of natural resources due to human activities; to use all of something.

1. An industrial-scale operation that uses as much electricity as a small town.
2. The practice of using a network of remote servers that are hosted through the internet and used to store, manage, and process data (doesn't use a local server.
4. Visible air pollution in urban areas. It looks like dirty fog in large cities.
6. A form of energy resource like coal, oil, and natural gas.
7. An energy resource that is not able to grow again or be made again.
8. A type of system used to control the temperature in data centers; helps containment systems reduce energy expenses but also uses a lot of energy itself.
11. Removes unhealthy servers that are causing additional consumption of power; a computing technique
12. The measure of a system's ability to increase or decrease its performance paired with the cost in response to system processing demand changes.
14. distribute tasks over a set of resources to prevent overloads.
16. Using less energy to perform the same task.