Human Impacts on the Earth Vocabulary

A material that is found on Earth and is useful

• Natural Resource

• Sustainability

• Non-Renewable Resource

• Pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A resource or raw material that can be grown and replaced.

• Natural Resource

• Timber

• Renewable Resource

• Smog

A resource that takes so long to form that it can't be replaced

• Renewable Resource

• Natural Resource

• Nutrients

• Non-Renewable Resource

Using resources in a way so that there will always be enough for the future

• Erosion

• Sustainability

• Development

• Desertification

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

• Smog

• Nutrients

• Natural Resources

• Timber (or lumber)

When productive, useful lands are turned into deserts because of too much erosion

• Smog

• Desertification

• Eutrophication

• Development

When humans dig up the Earth to take out metals or rocks. Mining gets us lots of useful materials, but it creates lots of pollution.

• Desertification

• Ozone

• Mining

• Erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

When rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away by water or wind. Too much of this leads to desertification

• Erosion

• Desertification

• Development

• Deforestation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A toxic form of oxygen.

• Smog

• Landfill

• Drought

• Ozone

Disposal of solid waste by burying in layers of the earth in low ground.

• Smog

• Landfill

• Ozone

• Recycling