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| 903014258 | Environmental Science | The study of the impact that humans have on the environment | 0 | |
| 903014259 | ecology | The study of how living things interact with each other and their nonliving environment | 1 | |
| 903014260 | agriculture | The practice of growing, breeding and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing and transportation | 2 | |
| 903014261 | natural resource | a natural material used by humans | 3 | |
| 903014262 | non-renewable resource | a resource found on the earth that forms at a much slower rate that it is consumed example: fossil fuels | 4 | |
| 907440718 | renewable resource | a resource that can be replaced relatively quickly | 5 | |
| 907440719 | resource depletion | when all the resources are used up | 6 | |
| 907440720 | pollution | an undesired change in the air, water and soil that adversely affects the environment | 7 | |
| 907440721 | biodegradable pollutants | pollutants that break down by natural processes | 8 | |
| 907440722 | non-degradable pollutants | pollutants that do not break down by natural pollutants | 9 | |
| 907440723 | biodiversity | the number and variety of species that live in an area | 10 | |
| 907440724 | law of supply and demand | a basic rule that states that the greater the demand is for a limited resource the more that it is worth | 11 | |
| 907440725 | cost benefit analysis | balances the cost of the action against the benefits one expects from it | 12 | |
| 907440726 | risk assessment | tool used to see if the risk is worth the cost to perform the service | 13 | |
| 907440727 | developed country | a country has higher income, slower population growth, diverse industrial economies, and stronger social support systems | 14 | |
| 907440728 | developing countries | countries with lower incomes, faster population growth simple agriculturally based economies | 15 | |
| 907440729 | ecological footprints | show the productive area of the earth needed to support one person in a particular country | 16 | |
| 907440730 | sustainability | a condition in which human needs are met so that the human population can survive indefinitly | 17 |
