Environmental Change And Management Flashcards
Challenges
Problems that need to be overcome.
World views
The way the world sees and receives an idea.
Carbon cycle
The cycle of carbon in our everyday lives
Global warming
Change of the earths temperature from pollution and destruction caused by humans
Stewardship
The management or care of something
Enhanced greenhouse effect
Greenhouse effect caused by human activity
Change
To go from one thing to another
Ecological footprint
The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems.
Habitats
Places where animals live in certain environments acceptable for them.
Development
Improving and/or changing something.
Endanger
In danger or a species that has only a few of its kind left.
Biodiversity
The variety of life = food chains and ecosystems
Plants
A living organism such as trees
Animals
A living organism other than a human being part of food chains
Ecosystems
A biological community of living organisms and their environment
Define endangered species
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.
Define giant pandas
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.
Define the term ‘causes’.
Causes are the reason they are that something has happened, there are reasons for making them the way they are.
Rural
in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
Urban
in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city.
Remote
(of a place) situated far from the main centres of population; distant.
