Sustainability Vocabulary

What is sustainability?

• "Having enough resources for human beings."

• "Protecting the planet by giving up plastic water bottles."

• "Sharing the planet and creating a livable future for all of us inhabiting the Earth."

• "Protecting endangered species and planting personal gardens."

What is overconsumption?

• "Using more resources than the planet can provide in a maintainable way."

• "Eating too much food."

• "Making a species go extent by overhunting and deforesting a country by cutting down too many trees."

• "Not using enough natural resources so they go to waste."

What is population?

(Multiple Correct Answers)

• "A community of animals, plants, or humans."

• "How many individuals live in a certain area."

• "Everything on the planet."

• "The type of people or animal in a room or zoo."

What is overpopulation?

• "When there aren't enough resources for people."

• "When there are more humans than the Earth can provide for."

• "When a physical feature appears in multiple generations."

• "When a human mother has more than three children."

What is an environmental footprint?

• "When the natural environment encroaches a human space."

• "When people create paths by walking too much on the grass."

• "How much people deforest the land around them."

• "How much people take from nature and directly impact their environment."

What is biodiversity?

(Multiple Answers)

• "The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem."

• "When an environment has many species that are interconnected with each other."

• "The communities that the species on Earth form and the habitats in which the species live."

Name one way you can live more sustainably.

Name a second way you can live more sustainably.

What is one question you have about living sustainability and/or supporting the biodiversity of the planet?

Name a third way you can live more sustainably.