Zayn Rahman, Unit 1 Crossword

12345678910111213141516171819
Across
  1. 3. 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.
  2. 6. the yield obtained from natural resources
  3. 9. A worldview that shapes the way an individual or group of people perceives and evaluates environmental issues
  4. 12. contaminants from a single clearly identifiable site
  5. 14. An ecocentric viewpoint integrates social, spiritual and environmental dimensions into a holistic ideal.
  6. 16. the use and management of resources that allows full national replacement of the resources exploited and full recovery of the ecosystems affected by their extraction and use
  7. 17. an estimate of an ecosystem's production of natural resources but also of its absorption and cycling of materials in biogeochemical cycles like the carbon cycle
  8. 18. natural resources that can supply a natural income of goods and services
  9. 19. An anthropocentric viewpoint argues that humans must sustainably manage the global system.
Down
  1. 1. the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation
  2. 2. A technocentric viewpoint argues that technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems.
  3. 4. can occur when lakes, estuaries and coastal waters receive inputs of nutrients, which resultss in an excess growth of plants and phytoplankton.
  4. 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.
  5. 7. contaminants from numerous widely dispersed origians
  6. 8. More economically developed country
  7. 10. 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.
  8. 11. 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
  9. 13. Less economically developed country
  10. 15. development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs