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Sustainability
While reading the chapter, complete these guided notes on the student notes side. Then, during class discussion,
add to the teacher notes side. You should write complete answers to all this information, so that you have a more
complete understanding of the topic.
Student Notes
Case Study: Living in an Exponential Age
1. What type of growth has the human population
experienced over the last 200 years? Draw a
graph showing this growth.
Exponential
Teacher Notes
3. Define sustainability.
The ability of the earths various natural systems and
human cultural systems and economies to survive and
adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely.
Section 1-3: How are our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
1. Define renewable resource and list some
examples. Which one is a perpetual resource?
Resources that can be replenished fairly quickly
through natural process as long as it is not used up
faster than it is renewed. Forest, grasslands, fisheries,
freshwater, fresh air, and fertile soil.
been degraded.
When a resource has been used passed it sustainable
yield. Forest, Air, aquifer, fisheries.
2. Compare and contrast point source and nonpoint source pollution. List examples of each.
With point source we know where its coming from.
With non-point source there could be multiple different
hearths of the pollutant making it difficult to identify.
Point source examples include smoke stake of a coalburning power or industrial plant. Non-point source
include pesticides blown from the land into the air and
runoff of fertilizers from lawns gardens and golf
courses.