Lesson 1: Introduction to Environmental Science Flashcards
What do you call a systematic body of knowledge?
Science
What do you call an interdisciplinary study that focuses on the interaction of the natural sciences with social sciences?
Environmental Science
What do you call the movement for protecting the earth’s life?
Environmentalism
What do you call the study of interactions between organisms and their environment?
Ecology
It refers to all organisms living in an area and their physical environment wherein they interact?
Ecosystem
What do you call the place where everything that affects a living organism which can include both biotic and abiotic factors?
Environment
What are the three things that keep us alive?
Solar Energy
Resources
Services
Examples of resources
Air
Water
Soil
Energy
Minerals
What are examples of services that keep us alive?
population control
nutrient recycling
climate control
population control
waste treatment
biodiversity
pest and disease control
Without these organisms, an organism’s population will remain unchecked.
Predators
What will help control organism population?
Innovation
Refers to the growth of the population of an organism?
Population growth
What do you call the growth in the capacity of an economy to provide goods and services?
Economic Growth
What does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product
What do you call the annual market value of goods and services?
GDP or Gross Domestic Product
What do you call the GDP dividend by its total population?
Per capita GDP
What do you call the improvement of living standards by economic growth?
Economic development
Three types of resources
Perpetual
Renewable
Non-renewable
This is the highesr rate at which a renewable resource can be used without reducing the available supply
Sustainable Yield
What do you call the depleion or destruction of potentially renewable resourve that is used faster than is replenished
Environmental Degredation
What do you call th biologically productive land and water required to supply a population
Ecological Footprint
These are resourves that takes millions or billions of years to replenish
Non-renewable resources
These resources can be fairly and rapidly replenish through natural resources
Renewable
These are resources that cannot be exhausted
Perpetual Resources
What does prevention do to pollution?
Input control
What do cleanups do to pollution?
Output control
Major Environmental Problems
Biodiversity
Air Pollution
Water Pollution
Waste Production
Food Supply Problems
It is an undesirable change in physical, chemical, biological or etc. of natural stuff that can adversely affect organisms
Pollution
Pollution is divided into two categories
Point Source Pollution
Non Point Source Pollution
