Chapter 1 Environmental Science

4. Resources a resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes.
5. an undesirable change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival or activities of humans or other organisms.
7. Science The study of the impact of humans on the environment.
8. The practice of growing, breeding and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing, transportation or other purposes.
10. of supply and demand states that the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more it is worth.
11. of Commons areas of land that belonged to a whole village. Anyone could graze cows or sheep on the commons.
12. refers to the number of varieties of species that live in an area.
13. when a large fraction of the resource has been used up.

1. Countries have lower average incomes, simple and agriculture based economies, and rapid population growth.
2. the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
3. Study of living things interact with each other and with their non living environment.
6. Resources a resource that forms at a much slower rate than the rate that it is consumed.
9. Countries have higher average incomes, slower population growth, diverse industrial economies and stronger social support systems.