Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a resource that forms at a much slower rate than the rate it is consumed
  2. 5. the practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing, transportation
  3. 10. pollutants that can be broken down by natural processes
  4. 13. pollutants that cannot be broken down by natural processes
  5. 14. a resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes
  6. 16. the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
  7. 17. science the study of the impact of humans on the environment
  8. 19. when a large fractions of the resource has been used up
  9. 20. an undesired change in the air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival or activities of humans or organisms
Down
  1. 1. the study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment
  2. 3. footprint shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country
  3. 4. the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more the thing is worth
  4. 6. a tool that helps create cost-effective ways to protect our health and environment
  5. 7. the number and variety of species that live in an area
  6. 8. analysis balances the cost of the action against the benefits one expects from it
  7. 9. any natural material that is used by humans
  8. 11. countries have higher average incomes, slower population growth, diverse industrial economies and stronger social support systems
  9. 12. a complex web of relationships that connects us with the world we live in
  10. 15. people who obtain food by collecting plants and by hunting wild animals or scavenging for their remains
  11. 18. countries have lower average incomes, simple and agriculture-based economies, and rapid population growth