ENVT Vocab

6. The process by which human activities or climatic changes make area more desertlike
9. Life that is intrusive to a given environment
11. Precipitation that contains acids
13. Any natural material that is used by humans, such as water, petroleum, minerals, forests and animals
15. The wise use and preservation of natural resources
16. The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a city
18. Waste water or other material that is introduced into water and that is harmful to organisms that live in , drink, or exposed to the water
19. A resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which the resource is consumed

1. The amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere by the activities of an individual, company, country, etc.
2. Life that is indigenous to a certain area
3. The process by which human activity and natural processes damage land to the point that the ecosystem can't support life
4. A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which it is being used
5. The removal of trees and other vegetation from an area
7. An increase in the amount of nutrients, such as nitrates, in a marine or aquatic ecosystem
8. A reduction in the amount of farmland for growing crops due to roads, buildings, schools, and shopping areas
10. The quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance
12. A nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago
14. To treat or process material used or waste so as to make suitable for reuse
17. The contamination of the atmosphere by pollutants