Across
- 2. Meeting today's needs without limiting future generations' ability to meet theirs
- 3. Measures oxygen needed to break down organic matter in water; indicates water's organic pollution
- 5. Timber, fiber, food
- 6. More economically developed country
- 7. The land and water area needed to sustain a population's resource use. If it exceeds available area, its unsustainable.
- 10. Reports done before projects to predict environmental, social, and economic impacts and suggest solutions
- 15. The yield or benefits obtained from natural resources
- 16. Contaminants from a single, identifiable source
- 18. Believes technology can solve environmental problems; emphasizes scientific research and pro-growth policies
- 19. Excess nutrients in water cause overgrowth of plants and phytoplankton Less economically developed country
- 21. Using resources so they can naturally replenish and ecosystems can recover
Down
- 1. Produces Oxygen, prevents floods, reduces soil erosion
- 4. An ecosystem's ability to produce resources and absorb waste; Earth's average is ~1.7global hectares per person
- 8. Contaminants from many dispersed sources
- 9. A worldview that shapes how people perceive and judge environmental issues
- 11. natural resources that provide goods or services
- 12. Adding substances to the environment faster than it can safely maintain and handle, harming organisms
- 13. The date when humanity's resource use surpasses the Earth's annual capacity. Consequences include deforestation, soil erosion, biodiversity, CO2 buildup, extreme weather, and reduced food production
- 14. Focuses on nature and ecology as central, valuing social, spiritual, and environmental balance over materialism
- 17. Centered on humans, promoting sustainable management of sources through laws, taxes, and debate
- 20. Maximum population or cops an area can support without harming the environment