ES Ch. 1 Vocab

A calculation that shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person

• Environmental Science
• Ecological Footprint
• Pollution
• Agriculture

An undesirable change in the natural environment that is caused by the introduction of substances that are harmful to living organisms or by excessive wastes, heat, noise, or radiation.

• Sustainability
• Law of Supply & Demand
• Ecology
• Pollution

The study of air, water, and land surrounding an organism or a community, which ranges from a small area to Earth’s entire biosphere; it includes the study of impact of humans on the environment.

• Environmental Science
• Ecology
• Natural Resource
• Biodiversity

Any natural material that is used by humans, such as water, petroleum, minerals, forests, and animals.

• Sustainability
• Pollution
• Natural Resource
• Ecology

People who obtain food by collecting plants and by hunting wild animals or scavenging their remains.

• Hunter-Gatherers
• Industrial Revolution
• Pollution
• Ecology

The raising of crops and livestock for food or for other products that are useful to humans.

• Agriculture
• Pollution
• Ecological Footprint
• Biodiversity

A law of economics that states that’s as the demand for a good or service increases, the value of the good or service also increases.

• Law of Supply & Deman
• Industrial Revolution
• Natural Resource
• Pollution

The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.

• Ecology
• Natural Resource
• Sustainability
• Ecological Footprint

The revolution in which people domesticated their animals that allowed an area of land to be able to support up to 500 times as many people by farming compared to hunting and gathering.

• Agricultural Revolution
• Pollution
• Ecological Footprint
• Biodiversity

The variety of organisms in a given area, the genetic variation within a population, the variety of species in a community, or the variety of communities in an ecosystem

• Ecology
• Pollution
• Natural Resource
• Biodiversity