CH 1 Voc- Env & Sustainability

1. Biological science that studies how living things interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment

• Exponential Growth

• ecology

• pollution

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

1. Resource that can be replenished rapidly (in hours/centuries) through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is replaced; examples include: fertile topsoil, forests, clean air

• renewable resource

• natural resource

• life-centered world view

• recurring nightmare

1. One or more communities of different species interacting with one another and with chemical and physical factors of the nonliving environment

• point source

• non-point source

• ecosystem

• environmentalism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

1. Resources that exist in a fixed amount and take millions to billions of years to form; examples include copper, coral, oil, salt

• nutrient cycle

• renewable resource

• non-renewable resource

• drive-thru at Zaxbys

1. Capacity of earth’s natural systems that support life, including human social systems, to maintain stability or to adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely

• human centered world view

• sustainability

• environment

• water cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

1. A broad-based interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment

• environmental science

• ecosystem service

• nonpoint source

• Jerry Springer

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

1. Everything around you

• sustainability

• awesomeness

• capital

• environment

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

1. The natural resources and ecosystem services that keep humans and other species alive and that support human economies

• life-centered world view

• environmental degradation

• natural capital

• nonrenewable resource

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

1. The study of varying beliefs about what is right and wrong with how people treat the environment; provides useful tools for examining world-views

• environmental ethics

• ecosystem

• point source

• natural capital

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

1. Harmful contamination of the environment by a chemical or agent entering it over a diffuse area

• natural income

• non-point source

• bad attitudes

• earth-centered world view

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4