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 for food, clothing, housing, transportation, and other purposes.

Question 4

natural resource

Answer 4

Any natural material that is used by humans.

Question 5

pollution

Answer 5

An undesired change in the 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 veriety of species that live in an area.

Question 7

law of supply and demand

Answer 7

The law states that the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the morethat product is worth.

Question 8

ecological footprint

Answer 8

It shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in aparticular country.

Question 9

sustainability

Answer 9

the condition in which human needs aremet in such a way that a human population can surviveindefinitely at a standard of living similar to the currentone