Lynna Nguyen, Unit 1 Crossword
Across
- 2. A worldview that shapes the way an individual or group of people perceives and evaluates environmental issues
- 5. source pollution contaminants from a single clearly identifiable site
- 10. Less economically developed
- 11. An estimate of an ecosystems production of natural resources but also of its absorption and cycling of materials in biogeochemical cycles like the carbon cycle
- 13. contaminants from numerous widely diapered origins
- 15. A report completed before development to assess the environmental,social and economic impacts of the project, predicting and evaluating possible impacts and suggestion and mitigation strategies for the project
- 17. The use of management of resources that allows fill natural replacement of the resources exploited and full recovery of the ecosystems affected by their extraction and use
- 18. Can occur when lakes, estuaries and coastal waters receive inputs of nutrients which resulats in an excess growth of plants and phytoplankton
Down
- 1. More economically developed country
- 3. Is the day when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services is greater than the Earth's ability to regenerate those resources in a given year
- 4. The area of land and water required to sustainably provide all resources at the rate at which they are being consumed by a given population
- 6. Natural resource that can supply a natural income of goods or services
- 7. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- 8. The number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation
- 9. A viewpoint that argues technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems
- 12. A viewpoint that argues humans must sustainably manage the global system
- 14. The addition of 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 effort on the organisms in the environment
- 16. the yield obtained from natural resources