Environmental Science Mid Semester Vocabulary Quiz

____is the resource that can be replaced at the rate it is used.

• Renewable resource
• Sustainable

• Constraint

• Nonrenewable resource

____the part of Earth that has been constructed or modified by humans; sometimes considered one of the spheres of the Earth system.

• Biosphere

• Aesthenosphere

• Anthroposphere
• Antarctica

____the size and shape of the land surface features of a region, including its relief.

• Geography
• Topography
• Ozone

• Cryosphere

____not capable of being renewed, such as a resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which the resource is consumed.

• Renewable Resources

• Non-renewable Resources

• Sustainable
• Fossil Fuels

____is a part of the universe, made up of interacting components, that can be studied independently.

• Accretion

• Ozone

• Biodiversity

• System

____layer that is located between 15 and 25 km above Earth's surface.

• Cryosphere

• Ozone

• Asthenosphere

• Topography

____meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

• Fossil Fuel

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Sustainable

• Constraint

____growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion.

• Constraint

• Radiation

• Convection

• Accretion

____The part of the hydrosphere that is frozen water, often excluding ice in the atmosphere; sometimes considered one of the spheres of the Earth system.

• atmosphere
• lithosphere
• biosphere
• cryosphere

____including coal, oil, and natural gas, formed from organisms that lived long ago.

• Renewable Resource

• Biodiversity

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Fossil fuels