Ecological footprint

​ (a)   is the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of ​ (b)   .

The ecological footprint tracks the use of productive ​ (c)   such as:

cropland, ​ (d)   , fishing grounds, forest area.......

• Ecological footprint
• natural resources
• surface areas
• grazing land

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Which of the following contributes to an individual's ecological footprint? Select all that apply.

• Grazing land

• Forest land

• Size of their city

• Amount of energy they use

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An ecological footprint is therefore the ​ (a)   (opposite) of carrying capacity and provides a quantitative (​ (b)   ) estimate of human carrying capacity of the environment.

​ (c)   is the maximum number of organisms that an ecosystem can support.

• inverse
• numbers/data
• Carrying capacity

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The ecological footprint is

• A measure of how fast we use resources and how fast nature can absorb waste and replenish resources

• The mark a person's foot makes on the ground

• A measure of the loss of trees in a given area

• A measure of the number of animals harvested in an area

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The total amount of land and water needed to provide for and dispose of all that and individual consumes is known as

• an ecological footprint

• a natural resource

• a nonrenewable resource

• an environmental budget

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In our area, much of our electricity is created by burning coal.

The more you use electricity the more coal is burned,

So when you have to recharge an electric car such as a Tesla what is the result:

• Cleaner air

• Nothing changes, you still have to burn a fossil fuel to get the electricity

• Cleaner gas

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