Natural Resource Vocabulary

What does deplete mean?

• to use up

• to go backwards

• to erase

• to move forward

performing a task with skill and minimal waste

• efficiently

• skillfully

• artfully

• frugally

Reduce

• to divide

• to lessen

• to add

• to multiply

human construction, growth, and consumption that can be maintained with minimal damage to the natural environment.

• Sustainable Development
• Industrialization
• Urbanization
• Deforestation

biodiversity

• All the different kinds of living organisms within a given area.

• A type of renewable energy source.
• A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization, or location.
• A type of non-renewable energy source.

to clean or process in order to make suitable for reuse.

• Recycle
• Destroy
• Discard
• Dispose

suitable or good enough.

• Satisfying

• Unfit
• Inappropriate
• Adequate

layers of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body.

• Atmosphere
• Orbitsphere

• Lithosphere
• Hydrosphere

carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and ozone, that absorbs solar heat reflected by the surface of the Earth,

• Greenhouse gases
• Ozone layer
• Solar radiation
• Atmospheric pressure

coal, oil, or natural gas formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals.

• Fossil fuels
• Renewable energy
• Groundwater

• Geothermal energy