Foundations of Environment Science Flashcards
1
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What is the environment?
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all abiotic and biotic things around us (animals, plants, continents, oceans, structures, social relationships) → We are included and dependent on the environment
2
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Nonrenewable
A
finite, formed slower than we use them (coal, crude oil, minerals)
3
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Renewable
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we can’t run out (sun, wind)
4
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ecological footprint
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expresses the environmental impact of biologically productive land and water required for a person or population to use and dispose of to live.
5
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Overshoot
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Humans have surpassed the Earth’s capacity to support us
6
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What is the Scientific Method?
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observation → question → hypothesis → predictions → experiment
7
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Paradigm shift
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a dramatic upheaval of a thought (EX= the earth is flat, nope + sun revolves around the earth, nope)
