Environmental Unit 1 Vocabulary

2. A modern, industrialized country in which people are generally better educated and healthier and live longer than people in developing countries do
3. A valley in Yosemite National Park dammed to provide water for San Francisco
6. The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
9. A human-centered view of our relationship with the environment.
10. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources, creating disaster for the entire community
13. Natural resources that can be replaced.
14. The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.
15. Belief that whole ecological systems have value
16. The study of the natural processes that occur in the environment and how humans can affect them.
17. Land or resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community.

1. Period of political and social reform that lasted roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s
4. Human beliefs about what is right or wrong with how we treat the environment.
5. Release of harmful materials into the environment
7. A non-industrialized poor country that is seeking to develop its resources through industrialization.
8. Accumulation of salts in soil that can eventually make the soil unable to support plant growth.
11. A resource that cannot be replaced
12. A change in global or regional climate patterns