Ksenia Kozlovskiy, Unit 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. (1.4)The area of land and water required to sustain and provide resources for a population at the rate at which they are being consumed
  2. 3. (1.1)A technocentric worldview is the belief that technology and human ingenuity can solve all problems, including environmental ones, allowing for continued progress without needing to fundamentally change human behavior.
  3. 5. (1.4)A report completed before development to assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of the project, predicting and evaluating possible impacts and suggesting mitigation strategies for the project.
  4. 8. (1.4)The use and management of resources that allows full natural replacement of the resources exploited and full recovery of the ecosystems affected by their extraction and use.
  5. 9. (1.4)An estimate of an ecosystem's production of natural resources but also of its absorption and cycling of materials.
  6. 10. (1.1)An ecocentric worldview is a nature-centered perspective that values the entire ecosystem, including both living and non-living components, for its own sake rather than for human benefit.
  7. 11. (1.5)The addition of a substance or an agent to an environment through human activity, at a rate greater than that at which it can be rendered harmless by the environment, and which has an appreciable effect on the organisms in the environment
  8. 12. (1.4)The natural resources that can produce a sustainable natural income of goods or services.
  9. 15. (1.4)The number of people, living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
  10. 16. (1.4)The yield obtained from natural resources
  11. 18. (1.4)More economically developed country
Down
  1. 1. (1.5)Contaminants from a single clearly identifiable site
  2. 2. (4.4)Can occur when lakes, estuaries and coastal waters receive inputs of nutrients, which results in an excess growth of plants and phytoplankton
  3. 4. (1.1)A worldview that shapes the way an individual or group of people perceives and evaluates environmental issues
  4. 6. (4.4)The measure of the amount of dissolved oxygen required to break down organic material in a given volume of water through aerobic biological activity
  5. 7. (1.4)The day when humanity's demand for resources is greater than the Earth's ability to regenerate them.
  6. 13. (1.4)Less economically developed country
  7. 14. (1.1)Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
  8. 17. (1.1)An anthropocentric worldview is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entities in the universe, and it values the rest of nature based on its usefulness to humanity.