Environmental Science
Across
- 1. energy resources
- 4. Amount of biologically
- 5. Broad areas where pollutants enter bodies or surface or air
- 6. resource that is constantly renewed
- 9. rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply
- 11. a broad philosophy concerning the protection and health of the environment
- 13. Human beliefs about what is right or wrong
- 14. a biological community of interacting organisms
- 17. Set of beliefs on how people think the world works
- 19. Identifiable source that discharges pollutants into the environment
- 20. Undesirable change in the characteristics of air, water, soil, and food that can affect the activities of humans
- 21. stock of natural resources
- 22. processes in which support life and our economy
- 24. Wealth based on the assumption that buying material goods will bring happiness.
- 25. Society that meets the basic needs for its people for the present and future
- 26. A measurement of the average environmental impact of individuals in different countries or areas
- 28. increase in a nation’s capacity to provide services to people
- 31. Inability for people to meet their basic needs
- 32. Major cultural change in which people learn to reduce their ecological footprints
- 34. Country that has moderate industrialization and per capita GDP.
- 36. Point at which an environmental problem reaches a threshold level
- 37. Growth in which quantity increases at a constant rate
- 38. a living thing
- 39. anything we use from nature
- 40. anything we use from nature
- 41. Device or process that used to prevent a potential pollutant
- 42. Worldview holding that we can manage the Earth for our benefit
Down
- 2. : the study of the environment and solutions to environmental problems
- 3. A society’s knowledge and practices
- 7. using a product again but for a different purpose
- 8. the study of the environment and solutions to environmental problems
- 10. branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to each other and their surroundings
- 12. a group of organisms that have the same characteristics
- 15. Worldview holding that humans are part of totally dependent on nature
- 16. something or someone not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources
- 18. circulation of chemicals necessary for life
- 23. Result of getting people with different views to talk and listen to one another
- 25. Depletion or destruction of a renewable resource
- 27. that are essential or useful to humans
- 29. Several days to several hundred years to renew
- 30. Worldview holding that humans are separated from nature
- 33. Device or process that reduces the level of a pollutant after it has been polluted
- 35. using a product again in exactly the same way