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Midterms Flashcards

1
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Naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified form.

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Natural Resources

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Common examples of natural resources

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Air
Water
Sunlight
Soil
Plants
Animals
Fossil fuels

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Classification of Natural Resources based on Origin

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  1. Biotic Resources
  2. Abiotic Resources
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Natural resources that come from the biosphere

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Biotic Resources

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Natural resources that come from non-living, non-organic material.

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Abiotic Resources

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Examples of Biotic Resources

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  1. Fossil Fuels
  2. Forests
  3. Animals
  4. Organic Matter
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Examples of Abiotic Resources

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Land
Freshwater
Rare-earth elements
heavy metals

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Classification of Natural Resources based on the Stage of Development

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Potential
Actual
Reserve
Stock

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Classification of Natural Resources based on the basis of Recovery Rate

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Renewable and Non Renewable Resources

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Natural resources that can be used in the future

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Potential Resources

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Natural resources that have been surveyed, quantified, and currently in use.

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Actual Resources

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Resources that can be replenished within a short period of time.

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Renewable Resources

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13
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Resources that do not naturally form in the environment or form slowly.

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Non-renewable Resources

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14
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Examples of Renewable Resources include:

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  1. Trees
  2. Wind
  3. Sunlight
  4. Soil fertility
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Examples of Non-renewable Resources

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  1. Minerals
  2. Fossil Fuels
  3. Natural Gas
  4. Soil
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Clean ____ important in order for the survival of plants, animals, and humans.

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air

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17
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Using this renewable energy source to produce energy has fewer environmental effects on the environment than other sources of energy

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Wind

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18
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How much of the earth is covered in water?

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70%

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19
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How many percent is freshwater?

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2%

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20
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These provide clean air and preserve the ecology in the world.

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Forests

21
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The variability of living organisms from all sources

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Biodiversity

22
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It is a naturally occurring substance with distinctive chemical and physical properties, composition, and atomic structure

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Minerals

23
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These result from the release of wastes (gasesous, liquid, and solid) that are generated daily by industrial commercial establishments as well as households.

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Environmental Problems

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Is the practice of organizing human activities in order to limit their impact on the natural environment

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Environmental management

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Principles of Environmental Management

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  1. Polluter Pays Principle
  2. User Pays Principle
  3. Precautionary Principle
  4. Principle of Effectiveness and Efficiency
  5. Principle of Responsibility
  6. Principle of Participation
  7. Principle of Proportionality
26
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The principle to be used for allocating costs of pollution prevention and control measures to encourage rational use of scarce environmental resources and to avoid distortions in international trade and investment.

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Polluter Pays Principle

27
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The principle states that all resource users should pay for the full-long run marginal cost of the use of a resource and related services.

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The User Pays Principle

28
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Its main objective is to ensure that a substance or activity posing a threat to the environment is prevented from adversely affecting the environment

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Precautionary Principle

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It is essential that efficiency of resources use may also be accomplished by the use of policy instruments that create incentive to minimize wasteful use.

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Principle of Effectiveness and Efficiency

30
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It is the responsibility of all persons, corporations, and states to maintain the ecological process.

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Principle of Responsibility

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It is the duty of all persons to participate in collectively environmental decision activities.

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Principle of Participation

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This principle is based on the concept of balance.

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Principle of Proportionality

33
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It is defined as enhancing natural assets across generations

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Natural Resources Management

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it is a systematic process where stakeholders, affected disciplines, and

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Integrated Resource Management

35
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Within ecoregions and landscapes flow of water is managed by humans and affected by human activity.

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Integrated Watershed management

36
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The area that drains a body of water such as the upland streams that flow into a river

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Watershed

37
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it is a people-centered approach to the integration of conservation of the natural resource base and development to overcome poverty, hunger, and disease.

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Community-based Resource Management (CBRM)

38
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Categories of Biological Components

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  1. Producers (Autotrophs)
  2. Consumers (Heterotrophs)
  3. Decomposers (detritus or saprophytes)
39
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Types of Environmental Ecosystem

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Terrestrial Ecosystem
Aquatic Ecosystem

40
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Types of Aquatic Ecosystem

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  1. Freshwater
  2. Marine
41
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Types of Freshwater Ecosystems

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  1. Lotic
  2. Lentic
  3. Wetlands
42
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Freshwater bodies that move slowly or still

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Lentic

43
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Fast-moving freshwater bodies

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Lotic

44
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Soils saturated with water for a long time

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Wetlands

45
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Examples of Saltwater Ecosystems

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Salt marshes
Coral Reefs
Lagoons

46
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Smallest type of ecosystem among the major types of ecosystems.

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Freshwater Ecosystem

47
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Largest type of Ecosystem on earth

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Marine Ecosystem

48
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Classes of Terrestrial Ecosystems

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Forest Ecosystems
Grassland Ecosystems
Mountain Ecosystems
Dessert Ecosystems

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