Module 1 Vocabulary Words

It is the capacity of the earth and human beings to survive to conditions in the next generation.

• Sustainability
• Biocapacity
• Ecology
• Ecosystem

An accurate definition of Sustainability is

• meeting population needs

• meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to survive

• meeting the needs of the future without worrying about todays

• meeting the food needs of animals

__________________ is an interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment.

• biosphere

• niche

• ecology

• environmental science

A natural resource that is naturally formed much more slowly than we use it is called __________

• renewable
• nonrenewable
• ecological
• stustainable

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

_______________________ as a system where life interacts with the various abiotic (nonliving) components found in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.

• Biological System

• Physiological System

• Environmental System

• Sustainable System

The ____________________ includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact or have a relationship with.

• Economy

• Ecosystem

• Environment

• Ecological

The study of ____________ is how humans interact with the Environment

• Ecology

• Biology

• Environmental Science

• Earth and Space

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Antonym of Affect

• Influence

• Transform

• Change

• Unmoved

Antonym of Environmental Degradation

• Renewable

• Depletion

• Deterioration

• Waste

Synonym of Predict

• Forecast

• Unseen

• Fact

• Prove