Environmental Science Ch. 1 Modified

What is a good definition for environment?

• All living things in an area

• All living and nonliving things and their interactions

What are non renewable resources?

• Natural resources that are sustainable

• Natural resources that will run out very soon

What are non renewable resources?

• Natural resources that are formed much slower than we can use them

• Non-Sustainable

• Will run out soon

• All are true

What is NOT an example of a renewable resource?

• Coal

• Solar

What is NOT an example of a non renewable resource?

• Natural Gas

• Wind

The study of the natural processes that occur in the environment and how humans can affect them.

• ecology

• environmental science

Release of harmful materials into the environment

• pollution

• biodegradable

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

• biodiversity

• sustainability

A law which states that when supplies of goods and services become plentiful, prices tend to drop. When supplies become scarcer, prices tend to rise.

• loss of biodiversity

• supply and demand

The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained

• agriculture

• sustainability