Definitons - Environmental change and management [Yr 10]

The variety of living organisms and the environments they form.

• Biodiversity

• Spiritual

• Biosphere

• Ecological

All the life forms and environments on or near the Earth's surface that are capable of sustaining life.

• Footprint

• Biosphere

• Biological

• Biodiversity

The naturally occuring processes in which carbon is exchanged between organisms and the environment.

• Cycle

• Carbon dioxide

• Carbon cycle

• Climate change

The management of the world's environment to meet the needs of the present population without reducing the capacity of future generations to meet their needs.

• Sustainability

• Greenhouse effect

• Global warming

• Footprint

A long term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric termperate

• Global warming

• Climate change

• Greenhouse effect

The amount of productive land required, on average by each person for food, water, transport, housing, waste management and other purposes.

• Biosphere

• Carbon cycle

• Ecological footprint

A species or animal or plant that no longer exists.

• Pollution

• Threatened

• Extinct

The retention of the Earth's heat by atmospheric gases.

• Climate change

• Global warming

• Greenhouse effect

Degradation of the health of land resources through human actions in ways that threaten their ability to maintain their environmental functions, eg. salinity, loss of biodiversity

• Land degradation

• Natural environments

• Salinity

• Environmental sustainability

The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects.

• Salinity

• Land degradation

• Pollution

• Fossil fuels