ES Ch. 1 and 6 Review

Materials and energy sources in nature that are essential or useful to humans.

• Natural Resources
• Nonpoint Source
• pollution
• Inexhaustible Resources

Contamination of the environment by any chemical or agent, such as noise or thermal energy, at levels considered harmful to the health, survival, or activities of organisms.

• pollution
• Natural Resources
• Inexhaustible Resources

Something that cannot be used up or depleted.

• Inexhaustible Resources
• pollution
• Natural Resources

The natural resources and ecosystem services that keep humans and other species alive and that support human economies.

• natural capital
• weather
• Ecological Footprint
• environmental degradation

Daily Changes in precipitation

• weather
• natural capital
• Ecological Footprint
• environmental degradation

Amount of land and water needed to supply a population with renewable resources and to absorb and recycle the waste and pollution such resource use produces.

• Ecological Footprint
• natural capital
• weather
• environmental degradation

Depletion, deterioration, or waste of Earth’s natural capital.

• environmental degradation
• natural capital
• weather
• Ecological Footprint

The natural services that support life and human economies at no monetary cost, such as pollination and the purification of air and water

• Ecosystem Services
• climate
• Runoff
• Nonpoint Source

Long-term pattern of atmospheric conditions

• climate
• Ecosystem Services
• Runoff
• Nonpoint Source

Surface water that flows into lakes, ponds, wetlands

• Runoff
• Ecosystem Services
• climate
• Nonpoint Source