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Question 1

anthropocene

Answer 1

modern geological era during which humans have dramatically affected the gloabl environment

Question 2

climate change

Answer 2

any change in climate over time, whether due to natura variability or as a result of human acitivity

Question 3

columbian exchange

Answer 3

interaction between the old world (europe) and the new world (americas) initiated by tge voyages of columbus

Question 4

conservation

Answer 4

natural resources should be usd thoughtfully and that humans should serve as stewards, not exploiters of the natural world

Question 5

deforestation

Answer 5

permanent clearing and destruction of forests

Question 6

demographic collapse

Answer 6

phenomenon of near genocide of indigenous populations

Question 7

ecological footprint

Answer 7

measure of the biologically productive land area needed to support a population by providing for its needs and absorbing its wastes

Question 8

ecological imperialism

Answer 8

introduction of exotic plants and animals into new ecosystems

Question 9

ecosystem

Answer 9

community of diff species interacting with one another and with the large physical environment that surrounds them

Question 10

global change

Answer 10

combination of political, economic, social, historical and environmental problems at the world scale

Question 11

greenhouse gas (GHG)

Answer 11

any gas that absorbs infrared radiation in the atmosphere, oncluding but not limited to, water vapour, C)2, CH4, N2O

Question 12

nature

Answer 12

social creation as well as the physical universe that includes human beings

Question 13

preservation

Answer 13

approach to nature advocating that certain habitats, species and resources should remain off limits to human use, regardless of whether the use maintains or depletes the resource in question

Question 14

society

Answer 14

sum of inventions, institutions and relationships created and reproduced by human beings across particular places and times

Question 15

technology

Answer 15

physical objects or artifacts, activities or processes and knowledge or know how

Question 16

virgin soil epidemic

Answer 16

outbreak of a disease to which the population at risk has no natural immunity or previous exposure within the lifetime of the oldest member of the group