Ch. 1 Key Terms

Question 1

Environmental science

Answer 1

The study of the environment 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 environment.

Question 3

Agriculture

Answer 3

the practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used fotr food clothing housing transportation, and other purposes.

Question 4

Natural Resource

Answer 4

Natural Resources can be classifies as renewable or nonrenewable, is a resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes.

Question 5

Pollution

Answer 5

an undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival or activities of humans or other organisms.

Question 6

Biodiversity

Answer 6

the number and variety of species that live in an area

Question 7

law of supply and demand

Answer 7

the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that product is worth

Question 8

ecological footprint

Answer 8

shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country

Question 9

Sustainability

Answer 9

the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that the population can survive indefinitely at a standard of living similar to the current one