Planet Earth
Planet Earth is full of countless living and nonliving things. It is of the utmost importance to understand that the Earth can only provide food and shelter to a certain amount of living things. As the world population becomes larger, it becomes increasingly more difficult for species to survive without having to out-compete each other. In other words, the Earth has a limited carrying capacity. For this reason, it is essential that humans live in a sustainable way so that they can conserve energy, food, and resources. living: alive nonliving: not alive provide: make available for use increasingly: more and more outcompete: force others to move because of limited resources carrying capacity: the number of people, other living things, or plants that a place can support without hurting the environment sustainable: using things over and over again conserve: to save Vocabulary Exercise: There are many organisms on Earth, and they are both _______ and ______