An \'ecological footprint\" _______. 1) represents the total area of biologicall

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An 'ecological footprint" _______. 1) represents the total area of biologically productive land and water needed to produce the resources and dispose of the waste for a given person or population. 2) measures the total area of Earth's ocean which contributes to fossil fuel production. 3) for a person living In the United States is much smaller than the size of an ecological footprint of someone living in Haiti. 4) is a measure of how sustainably a person is living within a given industrialized society. 5) for a person living In the United States is about the same we as that of a person living in Haiti.

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Ans 1. An ecological footprint represent the total area of biologically productive land and water needed to produce the resources and dispose the waste for a given person or population.

It measure the human demand on nature. It helps in measuring how much of the biological capacity of the planet is demanded by a given human activity or population

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