Unit 1 "Think Globally, Act Locally"

Any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time (in a timely manner)

• equitable

• natural resources

• renewable resource

• Non-renewable resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life support systems for us and other species

• Environmental Science

• Environmentalism

• equitable

• natural resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals. (taking millions of years to produce) Non-renewable resource

• renewable resource

• ecological footprint

• Sustainability

• fossil fuels

The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future

• Sustainability

• renewable resource

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources

• Sustainability

• Non-renewable resources

• ecological footprint

• Environmental Science

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature

• renewable resource

• ecological footprint

• equitable

• Environmental Science

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

fair

• environment

• equitable

• Environmentalism

• Culture

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people

• ecological footprint

• Environmentalism

• Culture

• Sustainability

the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions

• Ethics

• Culture

• renewable resource

• Environmentalism

a resource that cannot be reused or replaced easily (ex. gems, iron, copper, fossil fuels)

• renewable resource

• Sustainability

• Environmental Science

• Non-renewable resources