Unit Four Environment and Conservation Vocabulary

An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes).

• Biomass

• Urban

• Environmentalism

• Global Warming

The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

• Renewable

• Conservation

• Biodiversity

• Nonrenewable

A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed.

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Nuclear Power

• Sustainable

A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region.

• Climate Change

• Biodiversity

• Conservation

• Biomass

An energy source with a finite supply, primarily the fossil fuels and nuclear fuels.

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Urban

• Global Warming

The unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions.

• Urban

• Urban Sprawl

• Solar Power

• Wind Power

Electric or motive power generated by a nuclear reactor.

• Wind Power

• Solar Power

• Nuclear Power

• Climate Change

Power obtained by harnessing the energy of the sun's rays.

• Solar Power

• Nuclear Power

• Wind Power

• Biodiversity

Power obtained by harnessing the energy of the wind.

• Solar Power

• Wind Power

• Nuclear Power

• Biomass

Able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply.

• Climate Change

• Urban Sprawl

• Urban

• Sustainable