Galovic APES Chapter 1

Across

2. The circulation of chemicals necessary for life from the environment through organisms and back to the environment
6. An effort to use economic growth to improve living standards
7. Reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants
8. An increase in a nation's output of goods and services
10. The annual market value of all goods and services produced by all businesses operating within a country
12. The sun is a type of this resource
13. The highest rate at which we can use a renewable resource without reducing its available supply
15. The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to provide the people in a particular area with an indefinite supply of renewable resources
17. How humans interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment
18. The GDP divided by the total population
19. Cleaning up or diluting pollutants after we have produced them
23. Occurs when a quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time
26. A society that meets the current and future basic resource needs of its people in a just and equitable manner without compromising that ability of future generations to meet their basic needs
27. Everything around us, including the living and nonliving things
28. Using a resource over and over again
31. A major cultural change in which people learn how to reduce their ecological footprints and live more sustainability
33. Japan, Canada, and the United States are examples of this type of country
34. A set of organisms within a defined area that interact with one another and with their environment
36. Biological science that studies how organisms interact with one another
37. The whole of a society's knowledge, beliefs, technology, and practices, and human cultural changes
38. Involves getting people with different views and values to talk and listen to one another, to find common ground based on understanding and trust
39. Another word for living things
41. The renewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil

Down

1. Any presence within the environment that is harmful to organisms
3. Forests, grasslands, and fish populations are types of this resource
4. The natural resources and natural services that keep us and other forms of life alive and support our human economies
5. Coal and Oil are both examples of this resource
6. When an environment problem builds up slowly until it reaches a threshold level
9. Single, identifiable sources such as the smokestack of a coal-burning power plant
11. Degradation Depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource
14. Holds that we are part of nature and that nature exists for all species, not just for us
15. Your set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be
16. Dispersed and often difficult to identify such as pesticides blown from the land into the air
20. Occurs when people are unable to fulfill their basic needs for adequate food, water, shelter, health and education
21. Collecting waste materials and processing them into new materials
22. Holds that we are separate from and in charge of nature, that nature exists mainly to meet our needs and increasing wants
24. The average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area
25. Africa, Asia, and India are examples of this type of country
26. Beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment
29. Holds that we can and should manage the earth for our benefit, but that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers of the earth
30. Processes in nature which support life and human economies
32. Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans
35. Another word for wealth
40. A group of organisms that have a unique set of characteristics that distinguish them from all other organisms