Chapter 6.1-6.4

Humans affect regional and global environments through ________,

__________, and ________ in ways that have an impact on the quality of Earth’s natural resources, including soil, water, and the atmosphere.

The practice of clearing large areas of land to plant a single highly productive crop year______

• Monoculture

• Renewable

• Deforestation

Resource that can be produced or replaced by a healthy ecosystem _________

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable resource

Resources that natural processes cannot replenish them within a reasonable amount of time or not at all ________

Using resources in such an environmentally conscious way is called ________

Term used for the increase in average temperature- ______

The farming of aquatic animals- _____

Americans have an ecological footprint over _____ times larger than the rest of the world on average

What are two factors that contribute to your ecological footprint? ___________________.( can list two of those three)

The total area functioning land and water ecosystems needed both to provide the resources and individual or population uses and to absorb and make harmless the wastes that individual or population generates-

________