10 Geo Vocab

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

• Source

• Environment

• Biosphere 

• Spiritual Function

Wear away or change the appearance or texture of something by long exposure to the atmosphere 

• fossil fuels

• spatial

• Sink

• weathering

Natural fuels such as gas or coal, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms 

• Fossil fuels 

• Oil

• Sustainable

• biosphere

Relating to where things are, and why they occur there 

• source

• spatial

• sink

• sustainable

The safe absorption (through breakdown, recycling or storage) of the wastes and pollution produced by production and human life  

• source

• Sink

• Spiritual Function

• weathering

The variety of living organisms and the environments they form 

• Spiritual Function

• Biosphere

• Biodiversity

• Sustainable

The living and non-living elements of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere. It included human changes to the Earth’s surface e.g., croplands, planted forests, buildings, and roads 

• Environment

• source

• biodiversity

• biosphere

The place something comes from or starts at, or the cause of something 

• Environment

• Sink

• Fossil Fuels

• Source

When a resource is used in such a way as to preserve the resource and its surrounds 

• Biodiversity

• Environment

• Source

• Sustainable

Relating to deep feelings; the recreational, psychological, aesthetic value of environments to humans

• Spiritual Function

• Environment

• Biodiversity

• sink