Sustainability Vocabulary

Green revolution

• the development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agricultural techniques to increase yields of food craps

Renewable Resourses

• resources that can regenerate quickly and that is replaceable

nonrenewable resources

• resources that cannot be replenished by natural processes

Sustainable development

• Using natural resources at a rate that does not deplete them

soil ersion

• wearing away of surface soil by water and wind

desterification

• in areas with dry climates, a process caused by a combination of poor farming practices overgrazing and drought that turns productive land into desert

Deforestation

• destruction of forests

Aquaculture

• The raising of aquaatic organisms for human conumption

smog

• gray-brown mixture of chmiclas that occurs as a haze in the atmosphere

pollutant

• Harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land, air, or water

Acid rain

• rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids

biodiveresty

• biological diversity

endangered species

• species whose population size is rapidly declining and will beocme extinct if the trend continures

Invasive species

• plants and animals that have migrated to places where they are not native

convervation

• wise management of natural resources including the preservation of habitats and wildlife

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