Earth & Human Activity HMH Vocabulary Module G

The average consumption per person within a population.

Any natural material or energy source that is used by humans, such as water, petroleum, minerals, forests, and materials.

The warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of Earth that occurs when water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases absorb and reradiated energy.

Pollution that comes from a specific site.

An unwanted change in the environment caused by substances or forms of energy.

Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site.

Describes a species that has died out completely.

A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area.

The ruin or alteration of a place inhabited by an ecological community.

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

A resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which the resource is comsumed.

A natural process or phenomenon that may cause widespread injury, death, and property damage.

To reduce the severity or impact of something.

Widespread injury, death, and property damage caused by a natural hazard.

The place where an organism usually lives.