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Practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals used for a variety of purposes

• Agriculture

• ecology

• environmental science

• sustainability

Study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environments

• Environmental Science

• Ecology

• Sustainability

• Agriculture

Conflict between short-term interests of individuals and long term welfare of society

• Loss of Biodiversity

• Law of Supply and Demand

• The Tragedy of the Commons

• Sustainability

Declining number and variety of the species in area

• Sustainability

• Ecology

• natural resources

• Loss of biodiversity

Field of study involving the physical, biological, and social sciences

• Renewable Resources

• Ecology

• Environmental Science

• Law of supply and demand

Law describing the relationship between an item's availability and its value.

• supply and demand

• sustainability

• renewable resources

• The first amendment

Characterized by low population growth rate, high life expectancy, and diverse industrial economies

• developed nation

• developing nation

• environmental science

• ecology

Characterized by high population growth rate, low energy use, and very low personal wealth.

• tragedy of the commons

• unemployment

• developed nation

• developing nation

State in which a human population can survive indefinitely

• natural resources

• sustainability

• loss of diversity

• loss of biodiversity

Natural material that can be replaced relatively quickly through natural processes

• natural environment

• renewable resources

• nonrenewable resources

• nonrenewable energy