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APES Test No. 1 > Environmental Science - Intro. > Flashcards

Environmental Science - Intro. Flashcards

1
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Abiotic

A

All non-living matter

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2
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An _ is the sum of our surroundings

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Environment

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3
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Environmental Science

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Fact

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4
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Environmental Studies/Systems

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Opinion

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5
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Environmental Science is an _ field

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Interdisciplinary

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Natural Resources

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Things that are essential for human survival and growth

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Renewable Resources

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Resources that can be replenished or are always present (ex: sunlight, timber, water)

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Nonrenewable Resources

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Resources that either cannot be replenished or take a very long time to renew (ex: oil, coal, minerals)

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Tragedy of the Commons

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Unregulated use of resources leads to resource depletion

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10
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Some civilizations have fallen due to environmental decline:

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Easter Island, Greenland Norse, Anasazi of North America, Mayan, Modern Russia(?)

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11
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Environmental Disasters

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Subjective based upon societal views/opinions
DDT (pesticide)
MSMA (kills grass)
Toxic dumping
Not natural disasters (ex: hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.)

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12
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Science is used to…

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Sort fact from fiction; it is a systematic process of checks and balances that uses a wide body of knowledge to explain the world around us

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13
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Manipulative Experiments

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Experiments performed in lab settings

Yields the most results, but aren’t always indicative of what happens in the real world

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Natural Experiments

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Experiments performed in the field

Great design for what happens in nature, but results are not always very pretty

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15
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The great barrier to science is _

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The assumption of knowledge

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16
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Paradigm shift

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When theories change in the predominant view with enough time and data

17
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Major Paradigm Shifts

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Agricultural Revolution (began about 10,000 years ago - people stopped hunting and gathering and started moving to an agricultural way of life; crops, domesticated animals, and villages started during this period)
Industrial Revolution
(Began in mid-1700s - people started moving away from the traditional agricultural way of life and moved to urban areas; mass production, fossil fuels, and cities, were born from this era)

18
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Biotic

A

All living matter

19
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With enough applications, a hypothesis can become a _

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Theory

20
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Theory

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A widely accepted explanation (can change)

21
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Population vs. Resource Depletion

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Humans are the biggest stewards and problem to the environment; we now have a higher rate of resource consumption than we do population growth, and our population growth is out of control; currently, 200,000 people are added to this world daily

22
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Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)

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British economist who wrote a paper stating that unless population growth is controlled with laws, people will outgrow food supply until starvation, war, and famine returns it to balance

23
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Paul Ehrlich (1932-)

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American biologist whose 1968 book The Population Bomb predicted that the world’s population explosion would lead to disaster by the end of the 20th century

24
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Ecological Footprint

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The impact a person or population makes on the environment; takes into consideration the amount of productive land it takes to support your resource addiction; can by country-based as well

25
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Agriculture

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Since the agricultural revolution, we have seen the rise of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, land erosion, and pollution; as a direct result of these problems, we have seen a shift in our food production/use, and the way we eat (leading to fat Americans)

26
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Pollution

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From water to soil to air, pollution has taken control of our planet; very few places on our planet are pollution-free; the WHO (World Health Organization) estimates that 2 million people a year die due to pollution effects

27
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Biodiversity

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We are currently in a mass extinction period where we are losing species of critter every day; human actions have driven this mass extinction event, and once a species is gone, it’s gone forever

28
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Cornucopian

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Someone who thinks that the current status of the environment is getting better due to human intervention; humans can fix anything

29
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Cassandra

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Someone who thinks that we have reached a point of no return and predicts disaster

30
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Triple Bottom Line

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Our solutions must meet environmental, economic, and social goals at the same time

31
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We must strive for _, having no net loss of resources, leaving our planet the way we found it; we must use our resources in a way that does not compromise future _

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Sustainability; Availability

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