AP Environmental Science Sustainability

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

• sustainability
• conservation
• preservation
• network

All living organisms on Earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms

• biosphere
• atmosphere
• lithosphere
• hydrosphere

The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth

• atmosphere
• biosphere
• hydrosphere
• lithosphere

Composed of living plants or organisms

• biotic

• abiotic

• lithosphere

• atmosphere

The long-term average weather condition at a particular location

• climate
• weather
• region
• hearth

The scientific study of ecosystems

• ecology
• ecosystem
• cultural ecology
• cartography

A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact

• ecosystem
• ecology
• cultural ecology
• biotic

All of the water on and near Earth's surface

• hydrosphere
• atmosphere
• biosphere
• lithosphere

Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans

• nonrenewable resource
• renewable resource
• preservation
• resource

Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter

• abiotic
• biotic
• conservation
• biosphere