Geography Key Terms

Biodiversity

• A community of living organisms (plant, animals and microbes) living in their physical environment

• The variation of life at all levels (genes, species and ecosystems)

• A significant change in weather patterns over a period of time

• A gas in the atmosphere that changes the wavelength of radiation from the Sun so it is heat (infrared energy and/or reflects infrared radiation from the Earth back to the Earth

Carrying Capacity

• Something that uses a resource

• A change or disturbance of the environment that makes the environment worse

• Death of the last of a species (this means that there is no ability to reproduce and create a new generation.

• The amount of species an environment can support

Ecosystem

• A community of living organisms (plant, animals and microbes) living in their physical environment

• Something that is threatened and likely to become extinct

• A significant change in weather patterns over a period of time

• To take material already created but that is no longer used and change it into new products to prevent waste of useful resources

Extinction

• he variation of life at all levels (genes, species and ecosystems)

• Death of the last of a species (this means that there is no ability to reproduce and create a new generation.

• The amount of species an environment can support

• A change or disturbance of the environment that makes the environment worse

Globalisation

• Something that is threatened and likely to become extinct

• The sending out of gases into the atmosphere or pollutants into water

• A resource that is replaced naturally and can replenish with the passage of time

• The world has become increasingly interconnected

Conservation

• To take material already created but that is no longer used and change it into new products to prevent waste of useful resources

• A significant change in weather patterns over a period of time

• Protection and management of biodiversity, energy, habitat, wildlife and marine, soil and water resources.

• A gas in the atmosphere that changes the wavelength of radiation from the Sun so it is heat (infrared energy and/or reflects infrared radiation from the Earth back to the Earth

Process

• A measure of the total amount of carbon dioxide and methane emissions created by an entity

• A sequence of events; one thing leading to another

• Something that uses a resource

• A change or disturbance of the environment that makes the environment worse

Consumer

• To provide for basic human needs without degrading or destroying the natural

• A resource that is replaced naturally and can replenish with the passage of time

• Something that uses a resource

• The world has become increasingly interconnected

Renewable Resources

• Something that is threatened and likely to become extinct

• A sequence of events; one thing leading to another

• The variation of life at all levels (genes, species and ecosystems)

• A resource that is replaced naturally and can replenish with the passage of time

Global Warming

• A change or disturbance of the environment that makes the environment worse

• The sending out of gases into the atmosphere or pollutants into water

• A measure of the total amount of carbon dioxide and methane emissions created by an entity

• An increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere that causes changes to climate.