Unit 2 Vocab - Environmental Issues

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates

• Environment

• Resource Depletion

• Pollution

• Loss of Biodiversity

The extinction of plant or animal species and the reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat

• Environment

• Resource Depletion

• Pollution

• Loss of Biodiversity

When resources are used more quickly than they are replaced

• Environment

• Resource Depletion

• Pollution

• Loss of Biodiversity

The introduction of harmful levels of chemicals or waste material into the environment.

• Environment

• Resource Depletion

• Pollution

• Loss of Biodiversity

Any substance that living things can use

• Natural Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

Resources that cannot be replaced

• Natural Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

Resources that are replaced as they are being used

• Natural Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

Examples include cotton, oxygen, sunlight, fish.

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

Examples include oil, natural gas, copper

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

Increase in populations are too fast for regions to support

• Tragedy of the Commons

• Population Crisis

• Consumption Crisis

• Sustainable World