ES Unit 3 Section 2 Vocabulary

The ability to maintain a rate of natural resource harvest that can be continued indefinitely

• Conservation

• Recycling

• Consumption

• Sustainability

The collection, transport, processing or disposal of waste in an effort to reduce the effect on human health and aesthetics

• Urban planning

• Waste managment

• Recycling

• Sustainability

The planning of land use in cities

• Urban planning

• Waste managment

• Recycling

• Consumption

A way to make decisions based on the cost and benefits of a proposal

• Conservation

• Consumption

• Cost-benefit ratio

• Sustainability

The extraction of valuable minerals or other geologic materials from the Earth

• Agricultural

• Mining

• Urban planning

• Waste management

Raising crops and livestock for human use and consumption

• Sustainability

• Recycling

• Mining

• Agricultural

Using resources and products

• Consumption

• Cost-benefit ratio

• Sustainability

• Recycling

The process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash

• Conservation

• Recycling

• Consumption

• Sustainability

To preserve and protect

• Conservation

• Recycling

• Consumption

• Sustainability