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