Unit 1

Question 1

Environment

Answer 1

Source of everything for survival, our needs, and the supplies we want

Question 2

Goods and services

Answer 2

-provided by a healthy environment

Question 3

goods

Answer 3

wood, food

Question 4

services

Answer 4

the ability of the environment to regenerate

-humans affect this ability

Question 5

perpetual

Answer 5

alternative sources, always available, exploit them and you won’t change the quality of the resource

Question 6

non-renewable

Answer 6

limited amount of sources, once they are gone they are gone

• must recycle in order to keep supply of these resources
• doesn’t meet our timeline or we have to wait too long

Question 7

fossil fuels

Answer 7

• crude oil, natural gas
• came from fossilized plants and animals, a time line to wait for the carbon from the dead
• non-renewable

Question 8

renewable

Answer 8

-things that should be able to regenerate, if managed correctly behave like perpetual resources, if not then behave like non-renewable resources

Question 9

sustainability

Answer 9

maintaining change, staying balance, able to be maintained

Question 10

Negative impacts on the environment caused by humans

Answer 10

over-population, over-consumption of natural resources

Question 11

ecological footprint

Answer 11

demands for nature

Question 12

biocapacity

Answer 12

supply of nature

Question 13

ecological overshoot

Answer 13

when demands on nature are greater then what it can supply

Question 14

sustainable development

Answer 14

Meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
-environmental, economic, social

Question 15

Environmental 
Sustainability

Answer 15

The ability to meet humanity’s current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs