Resource Management Key Terms

Write the key term for this definition: The removal of the top layer of soil often caused by drought, deforestation and wind.

Write the key term for this definition: The non-living parts of an ecosystem

Write the key term for this definition: An estimate of the rising world population

Write the key term for this definition: The proportion of different energy sources used in a county

Write the key term for this definition: Ability to continue to use energy resources without causing damage to the environment and compromising the needs of future generations

Write the key term for this definition: A natural source of power that naturally replenishes itself and will never run out

Write the key term for this definition: The number and variety of living species found in a specific area

Write the key term for this definition: Measurement of all the greenhouse gases an individual produces expressed as tonnes or kg of carbon dioxide equivalent

Write the key term for this definition: A person with an interest or concern in something, such as those who are likely to be affected by fossil fuel extraction, deforestation or natural hazards

Write the key term for this definition: The living parts of an ecosystem

Write the key term for this definition: Where people try to make changes to improve places and environments

Write the key term for this definition: Energy that cannot reproduced such as coal, oil and natural gas that will eventually run out

Write the key term for this definition: Measure of the impact of human activities, expressed as the area of productive land and water required to produce the goods consumed and the wastes generated

Write the key term for this definition: Finite energy resources such as coal, oil and natural gas that were formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions a years ago

Write the key term for this definition: Drilling into Earth using high-pressure water to release gas trapped inside rocks