Name:______________________________________



Name: ______________________________________ Catholic Social Teaching

Date: ______________ Directed Reading Guide

Period: __________ Chapter Ten—Catholic Social Justice: Justice and the Environment

Directions: As you are reading through the chapter, fill in the missing information.

Pages 230-242—God’s Grandeur Threatened

1. The CST theme most closely associated with the environment is ___________________.

2. One ecological theory holds that non-human and human ecosystems have an equal right to flourish and the solution to the destruction of the planet is to decrease ___________________ population.

3. Scripture reminds us that the ___________________ of creation must be a priority in how we enact and understand our ___________________ over it.

4. The science which studies the relationship between organisms and their respective environment is known as ___________________.

5. The “___________________” is where solar radiation is trapped by a depleted ozone layer.

6. The loss of rainforests leads to an increase in the release of ___________________ which is a primary contributor to the depletion of ozone.

7. The United Nations and the World Health Organization report that ___________________ of diseases in developing nations are the consequence of unsafe water.

8. The ___________________ is the organization responsible for recognizing dangers in the abundance of environmental waste and its effects on human and non-human populations alike.

9. Global warming, often associated with greenhouse gases, is projected to raise the average global temperature by 1 to 3.5 degrees Celsius by the year ___________________.

10. The rate of species extinction has been called the ___________________ in historical times, the latest of which occurred 65 million years ago at the end of the ___________________ period.

11. The Church teaches that a ___________________ world centered on the love of God will see the world holistically and recognize the common good of authentic development and consumption of goods.

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