Unit 1 Vocabulary

The ability of a productive ecosystem to regenerate renewable resources

• Biocapacity

• Biodiversity

• Biosphere

• Ecology

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Variety of different species, genetic variability among individuals with each species, variety of ecosystems and functions such as energy flow and matter cycling needed for survival of species in a biological community.

• Biocapacity

• Biodiversity

• Biosphere

• Ecology

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The parts of the earth's air, water, and soil where life is found.

• Biocapacity

• Biodiversity

• Biosphere

• Ecology

Amount of biologically productive land and water neede dto supply a population with the renewable resources it uses and to absorb or dispose of the pollution and wastes from such resource use.

• Biosphere

• Ecology

• Ecological Footprint

• Ecosystems

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Biological science that studies relationships between living organisms and their environments.

• Biodiveristy

• Ecosystem

• Ecology

• Environmental Science

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One or more communities of different species interacting with one another and with the chemical and physical factors making up their nonliving environment.

• Ecology

• Ecosystem

• Biosphere

• Environment

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Natural services or natural capital that support life of earth and are essential to the quality of human life and the functioning of the world's economies.

• Ecosystem Services

• Biocapacity

• Environment

• Natural Capital

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All external conditions, factors, matter and energy living and nonliving, that affect any living organisms or those specified systems.

• Ecosystem

• Biosphere

• Biocapacity

• Environment

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Depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource.

• Ecological Footprint

• Environmental Degradation

• Environmental Ethics

• Environmental Science

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Human beliefs about what is right or wrong with how we treat the environment.

• Ecosystem Services

• Environmental Ethics

• Environmentalism

• Environmental Science

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