Enviromental Change And Management

Question 0

Source function

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Source function is natural sources which have originated directly from the biophysical environment.

Question 1

Definition of sustainability

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Environmental Science. the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance: The committee is developing sustainability standards for products that use energy. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sustainability)

Question 2

Sink function

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Sink function is safe absorption of the wastes and pollution produced by human activity.

Question 3

Service function

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Service function refers to the provision of environment or ecosystem that support life without requiring human actions.

Question 4

Spiritual function

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Earth’s intrinsic, psychological, aesthetic and spiritual value of environments is refer to spiritual function.

Question 5

Sustainability

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Sustainability is a ability or capacity of something to be maintained or to sustain itself.

Question 6

Global warming

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Increase ability of the earth atmosphere to trap heat

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Ecological system

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Ecological system is a new view of the relationship between the environment and people

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Stewardship

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Stewardship is the caring and ethical approach to sustainable management of habitats for benefit of all life on earth.

Question 9

Ecological footprint

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Ecological footprint is one means of measuring human demand for ecological service.

Question 10

Biocapacity

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Biocapacity is the capacity of a biome or ecosystem to generate a renewable and on going supply of resource and to process or absorb its wastes

Question 11

Enhanced green house effect

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Enhanced green house effect is the observable trend of rising world atmospheric temperature over the past century, particularly during the last couple of decades

Question 12

Lithosphere

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Rock, soil and everything that’s related to earth

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Atmosphere

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Oxygen and other air element

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Hydrosphere

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Water element

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Photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis is a process that allow plant containing a chemical called chlorophyll

Question 24

Introduce spicies

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Is new species that’s being introduce

Question 25

Plant

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Plants is a living things that convert carbon to oxygen

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Inactive species

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Is species that’s being introduce but it can harm humans

Question 27

Biodiversity

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A range and variety of all living thing

Question 28

Ecoysystem

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A biological community of interacting organism and their physical environment.

Question 29

Endanger species

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Endanger species are species that is starting to go extinct. Example Snow Leopold. This species of Leopold is about to become extinct. Which means that it will soon disappear, not longer in this planet

Question 30

Giant panda

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Giant panda is a panda that is a specie of panda that is the largest of all panda as you can tell by the name. They eat 4-9 pound of bamboos per day. Other then eating they either move to another spot of sleep.

Question 31

Causes

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Causes is a thing that is making something e.g. Animals die out

Question 39

Carbon credit

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Term for a tradable certificate representing the right of a company to emit one metric tonne of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Question 40

Kyoto prototype

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An internationally agreed set of rules developed by the United Nations aiming to reduce climate change through the stabilisation of greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere.

Question 41

Fossil fuel

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Carbon-based fuels formed over millions of years, which include coal, petroleum and natural gas.

Question 42

Geothermal

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(Power) describes power that is generated from molten magma at the earth core and stored in hard rocks under the surface

Question 43

Interconnection

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People and things that are connected to other people and things in their own and other places

Question 44

Climate

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Is change in climate over time

Question 45

Fire stick farming

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Controlling fire to prevent fire and light cause fire stick during dry season

Question 46

Animals

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Animal is all living beings that except plants