Chapter 7 - Vocabulary (Lessons 1 and 2)

the contamination of air by harmful substances including gases and smoke.

• Noise pollution
• Soil contamination
• Water pollution
• Air pollution

 a mixture of weathered rock, rock fragments, decayed organic matter, water, and air.

• Sand
• Clay
• Soil
• Gravel

when a community lacks the resources and requirements for a minimum standard of living

• Prosperity
• Affluence
• Wealth
• Poverty

the lack of access to modern energy services and products.

• Energy independence
• Energy poverty
• Energy efficiency
• Energy surplus

meeting human needs in ways that ensure future generations will also be able to meet their needs.

• Profitability
• Convenience
• Sustainability
• Efficiency

a part of food used by the body to grow and survive.

• Poverty

• Rocks

• Malnutrition

• Nutrient

a resource that can be replenished by natural processes at least as quickly as it is used.

• Finite resource
• Renewable resource
• Non-renewable resource
• Static resource

a resource that is used faster than it can be replaced by natural processes.

• Non-renewable resource
• Infinite resource
• Sustainable resource
• Renewable resource

fuel used for heating or to generate usable power.

• Geothermal energy
• Wind turbines
• Energy Resource

• Solar panels

the mixture of invisible, odorless, tasteless gases that surrounds Earth.

• air

• Carbon Dioxide

• Methane

• stratosphere