Ch. 1 Key Terms

Question 1

environmental science

Answer 1

the study of the enviroment that includes the physical, biological, and social sciences

Question 2

ecology

Answer 2

the study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving enviroment.

Question 3

agriculture

Answer 3

the practace of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing, transportation, and other porpuses.

Question 4

natural resource

Answer 4

can be clasified as a renewable or nonrenewable.

Question 5

pollution

Answer 5

an undisired change in the air, water, or soil that adversly affects the health, survival, or activites of humans or other orginisums.

Question 6

biodiversity

Answer 6

the number and variety of speces that live in an area.

Question 7

Law of supply and demand

Answer 7

States that the grader the demand for a limited supply of something

Question 8

Ecological footprint

Answer 8

shows the productive of earth needed to support one person in a particuler country

Question 9

sustainability

Answer 9

the condition in which human needs are met in such way that the human population can survive.