Environmental Change And Management Flashcards

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Challenges

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Problems that need to be overcome.

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World views

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The way the world sees and receives an idea.

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Carbon cycle

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The cycle of carbon in our everyday lives

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Global warming

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Change of the earths temperature from pollution and destruction caused by humans

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Stewardship

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The management or care of something

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Enhanced greenhouse effect

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Greenhouse effect caused by human activity

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Change

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To go from one thing to another

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Ecological footprint

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The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems.

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Habitats

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Places where animals live in certain environments acceptable for them.

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Development

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Improving and/or changing something.

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Endanger

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In danger or a species that has only a few of its kind left.

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Biodiversity

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The variety of life = food chains and ecosystems

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Plants

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A living organism such as trees

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Animals

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A living organism other than a human being part of food chains

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Ecosystems

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A biological community of living organisms and their environment

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Define endangered species

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An endangered species is a species which is close to becoming extinct. There is only a few left of that kind and they have to be saved.

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Define giant pandas

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A giant panda is a large panda that lives in the non developed areas of china. They eat bamboo and they are an endangered animal with only 1,600 left of their kind.

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Define the term ‘causes’.

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Causes are the reason they are that something has happened, there are reasons for making them the way they are.

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Rural

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in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.

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Urban

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in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city.

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Remote

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(of a place) situated far from the main centres of population; distant.