Environmental Science Vocabulary List

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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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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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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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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_____________________ is the contamination of air, land, and water.

• Conservation

• Ecology

• Pollution

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Which is the best definition of an Environmentally Sustainable Society

• One that protects ecosystem services and lives off its non-renewable resources while also meeting the current but not future basic resource needs of its people.

• One that is progressive and economically stable

• One that is fair and just to both the affluent and the impoverished

• One that protects natural capital and lives off its income while also meeting the current and future basic resource needs of its people.

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

• Point

• Non-Point

Environmental degradation is caused by ...................

• Controlled pollution

• Over-exploitation of nature

• Conservation of nature

• Loss of ecosystem

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