Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz!
everyone lived like the average U.S. citizen, it would take more than
five planets to support the world's population.
do you measure up? Take the Ecological Footprint quiz and measure your
impact on the planet.
does your footprint compare to that of the typical child who lives near
the monarch sanctuaries in Mexico? Gather information from these stories
and estimate the size of a family’s footprint in Michoacan, Mexico:
Science Education Standards
depend on their natural and constructed environments. Humans change
environments in ways that can be either beneficial or detrimental for
themselves and other organisms.
are things we get from living and nonliving environment to meet the
needs and wants of a population.
resources are basic materials, such as air, water, and soil; some are
produced from basic resources, such as food, fuel, and building materials;
and some resources are nonmaterial, such as quiet places, beauty, security,
of environmental degradation and resource depletion vary from region
to region and country to country.
- How human
actions modify the physical environment.