Sustainability in Construction L3

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

• environment

• sustain

• ecology

• resource

The study of how Earth supports and sustains human life (and all living organisms), using historical facts, current data and projections into the future, to maintain, or better, enhance human sustainability.

• environmentalism

• ecology

• environmental science

• natural resource

One or more communities of different species interacting with one another and with the chemical and physical factors of their nonliving environment.

• natural selection

• environment

• ecosystem

• resource services

A social movement dedicated to protecting the Earth's life support systems and resources for humans and other species.

• conservatism

• politcal action committee

• environmentalism

• ecology

Capacity of Earth's natural systems that support life (including human social systems) to maintain stability or to adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely.

• inexhaustible

• ecosystem services

• stabilization

• sustainability

Resource that can be replenished rapidly (in hours to centuries) through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is replaced. Ex. forests, grasslands, clean air, fresh water.

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resource

• inexhaustible resource

• natural resource

Food, water, sunlight, air, soil are resources that are often __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

Which of the following is an example of how climate change could effect agriculture?

• Increased droughts could reduce the amount of water available for irrigation
• Too cold to grow certain crops
• Fewer storms - so more nice weather for planting and harvesting
• Fewer pests and weeds

The introduction of any harmful substance or form of energy into the environment at a faster rate than it can be cleansed.

• Sustainability

• Pollution

• Pest Control

• Deforestation

What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.
• The different amount of species in an area
• All abiotic life
• Nitrogen fixation