Environmental Science Vocabulary List

all living AND nonliving things with which an organism interacts

• environment

• environmental science

• environmentalism

• ethics

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the study of how the natural world works, how the environment affects humans and how humans affect the environment

• environment

• environmental science

• environmentalism

• ethics

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a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world - including people - from the harmful changes produced by human activities

• environment

• environmental science

• environmentalism

• ethics

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the branch of philosophy that involves the study of good and bad, and of right and wrong

• environmental science

• ethics

• environmentalism

• ecological footprint

the ability to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply

• Tragedy of the Commons

• economics

• sustainability

• natural resource

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the environmental impact of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required to provide the raw materials the individual or population consumes and to dispose of or recycle the waste the individual or population produces

• ecological footprint

• Tragedy of the Commons

• environmentalism

• ethics

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All of the living AND non-living things together in an particular area is called a(n):

• ecosystem

• biome

• community

• population

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What term describes the positive benefits that wildlife or ecosystems provides to people?

• ecosystem services
• ecosystem
• biodiversity

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Which are examples of natural capital?

• filtering water

• producing oxygen

• controlling erosion

• all of these

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Pollution that comes from MANY different places and is hard to identify its source.

• Point

• Non-Point