👥 Human Impact Vocabulary

Resource that can be produced or replaced by healthy ecosystem functions

• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Pollutant
• Smog

Resource that cannot be replenished by a natural process within a reasonable amount of time

• Nonrenewable Resource
• Renewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Pollutant
• Smog

Destruction of forests

• Deforestation
• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Pollutant
• Smog

Harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land, air, or water

• Pollutant
• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Smog

Gray-brown haze formed by a mixture of chemicals

• Smog
• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Pollutant

Rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids

• Acid Rain
• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Pollutant

Total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere; also called biological diversity

• Biodiversity
• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Pollutant

Splitting of ecosystems into pieces

• Habitat Fragmentation
• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Pollutant

Atmospheric layer in which ozone gas is relatively concentrated; protects life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays in sunlight

• Ozone Layer
• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Pollutant

Sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by a particular species, or by all organisms on Earth

• Genetic Diversity
• Renewable Resource
• Nonrenewable Resource
• Deforestation
• Pollutant