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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Environmental science

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Interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with living/non living parts of their environment

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Ecology

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Biological study that studies how organisms interact with one another

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Organisms

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Living things

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Species

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Group of organism that have a unique set of characteristics distinguishing them from others. Can sexually reproduce fertile offspring.

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Ecosystem

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Set of organisms in a define area that interact with one another

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Chemical cycling or nutrient cycling

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The circulation of chemicals from the environment through organism and back to the environment is necessary for life

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Natural capital

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Natural resources/services that keep us and other forms of life alive and support our human economies

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Natural resources

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Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans

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Natural services

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Process in nature that support life and human economies

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Resource

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Anything we can obtain from the environment to meet our needs and wants

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Perpetual resources

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A continuous supply. Example: solar energy

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Renewable resource

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A resource that takes anywhere from several days/years to replenish

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Sustainable yield

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Highest rate at which we can use a renewable resource indefinitely without reducing its available supply

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Economic growth

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Increase in a nations output of goods and services

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GDP

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annual market value of all goods and services produced by all business’s. Foreign and domestic operating within a country.

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GDP PER CAPITA

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GDP divided by population at mid-year

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Economic development

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An effort to use economic growth to improve living standards

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Environmental degradation or natural capital degradation

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Degradation of normally renewable resources and services

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Environment

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Everything around us. Includes the living and non living things

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Point sources

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Identifiable sources of pollution

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Non-point sources

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Dispersed and often difficult to identify

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Pollution cleanup or output pollution control

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Cleaning up or diluting pollutants after we have produced them

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Pollution prevention or input pollution control

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Reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants

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Affluence

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Wealth, consuming large amounts of resources far beyond their basic needs

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Ecological footprints

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The amount of biological productive land and water needed to provide the people in a particular country or area with an indefinite supply of renewable reassures and to absorb and recycle the wastes

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Ecological tipping point

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Causes an often irreversible shift in the behavior of a natural system

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Sustainability revolution

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Learning how to live more sustainably

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Environmental worldview

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Your set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be

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Environmental ethics

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Beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment

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Planetary management worldview

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We are separate from and in charge of nature, nature exists mainly to meet our needs and increasing wants

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Stewardship worldview

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Holds that we can and should manage the earth for our benefit, and that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers

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Environmental wisdom worldview

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Holds that we are part of, and dependent on, nature and that nature exists for all species, not jus us.

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Natural income

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The renewable resources provided to us

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Social capital

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Getting people with different views and values to talk to one another and solve environmental problems

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