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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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3 types of Natural Resources

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Inexhaustible, Renewable, Non-Renewable

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Natural Resource

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anything produced by earth’s natural processes that exist independently of human activity

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3
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Inexhaustible Resources?

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Those that exist in constant supply regardless of how or whether we exploit them

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Renewable Resources

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can be depleted in the short term but can replace themselves over the long term

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Non renewable Resources

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exist in finite supply and are not being generated at a sufficient rate

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6
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Examples of Inexhaustible Resources

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Solar energy, Geothermal energy, Wind energy

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7
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Examples of Renewable Resources

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Clean air and water, fertile soil, forests/vegetation and wildlife

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8
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Examples of NonRenewable resources

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Fossil Fuels, minerals, wilderness

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9
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Environmental Science

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Study of how the natural world functions and how humans and the environment interact

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10
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What is the major environmental problem?

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Human Population Growth

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Sustainability

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Management of natural resources and the environment (The environmental goal)

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12
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Science and Values

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Science provides solutions; which chosen partly value judgements, including ethics

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13
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Biologic Time

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Time periods of less than 10,000 years

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14
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What is the oldest known living organism

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The bristlecone pine tree of CA (5000 years old)

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15
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Anthropocentrism/Exploitation

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The complete or maximum use of a resource for individual or societal gain

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16
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Example of Anthropocentrism/Exploitation

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Clear cutting the forest

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17
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Ecocentrism/Conservation

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Using resources wisely and leaving some for future generations

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18
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Example of Ecocentrism/Conservation

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Select cutting of a forest

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19
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Biocentrism/Preservation

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not using a resource

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20
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Example of Biocentrism/Preservation

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Not cutting the forest

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21
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Global Coordinate System

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network of east-west and north-south references

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22
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Latitude

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measures north and south

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23
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What are the line called for Latitude

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parallels

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24
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Low latitudes

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23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south

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25
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Middle Latitudes

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23.5 degrees to 55 degrees north and south

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26
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High latitudes

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55 degrees to 90 degrees north and south

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27
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Longitude

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measures east and west

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28
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What are the lines called for longitude

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meridians

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29
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Where is the prime meridian

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0 degrees longitude at greenwich, england

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30
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Where does 90% of earth’s 7 billion people live?

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on 30% of the earth’s land in the mid latitudes in the northern hemisphere

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31
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Carrying capacity

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the number of organisms that can live in a long term sustained balance with the environment

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32
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What is the only continent w/o human activity and land use

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Antartica

33
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Land use

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any human activity that takes place on land

34
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Population density

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the number of people living in a geographical area divided by the total area of land

35
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What is the percentage of human use of forests

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30%

36
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What is the percentage of human use of grasslands

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25%

37
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What is the percentage of human use of Agriculture/Rural

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11-12%

38
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What does LDC mean

A

Less developed Countries

39
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What does MDC

A

More developed Countries

40
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Hydrosphere

A

Water in all forms

41
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Atmosphere

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Air

42
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Lithosphere

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Land

43
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Biosphere

A

Life

44
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Who were the first conservationists

A

American Indians

45
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What covers 70% of the earth’s surface

A

Oceans

46
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What happens during the Solid–>Liquid–>Gas water phase change? What happens during the Gas–> Liquid–> Solid phase

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Energy gets absorbed. Gas gets released

47
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Hydrologic Cycle

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the continuous interchange of moisture between the atmosphere and the earth’s surface

48
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Components of the hydrologic cycle

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Evaporation–>Transpiration–>Condensation–>Cloud formation–>Precipitation–>Runoff–>Infiltration

49
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How much water does the ocean have? How much of the earth does that water cover

A

97.5% and covers 70% of earth’s surface

50
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How much water does permanent glacial ice have? How much of the earth does that water cover

A

2% and 75% of that water is fresh

51
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Types of glacial ice

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Continental, Oceanic, Underground

52
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Permafrost

A

permanently frozen soil

53
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How much water does underground have?

A

0.6%

54
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How much water does the surface have?

A

0.01%

55
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Wetlands

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marshes, grasses, swamp trees

56
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Rivers and streams(small river)

A

watershed

57
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Watershed or drainage basin

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land area that contributes runoff to a river

58
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lakes and ponds (small lake)

A

body of water surrounded by land

59
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resevoir

A

man made lake

60
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How much water does the atmosphere have

A

0.001%

61
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Ground water depletion is found where

A

Ogallala aquifier

62
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Surface water depletion

A

aral sea shrinking due to use for irrigation

63
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What year was the refuse act

A

1899

64
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What year was the clean water act

A

1972

65
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Point source

A

defined source (you can point to it) (factory, oil spill)

66
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non-point source

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unclear source (cities, construction sites, runoff)

67
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What specific sources do water pollution come from

A 
agriculture, (largesr non-point source)
urban environments, 
storm water runoff, 
soil erosion 
air pollution
68
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Forms of water pollution

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Toxic chemicals, disease-causing organisms, oil pollution, nutrients (eutrophication), sediment, thermal pollution, nets and plastic debris, and acid mine drainage

69
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Eutrophication

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increase in the concentration of chemical elements required for living things

70
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acid mine drainage

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the acidic water that drains from mines

71
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3 types of underground water

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Soil water, groundwater (rivers), aquifiers (lakes)

72
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What does engineering waterways do

A

food supply and flood control

73
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How much water is used in household toilets and showers

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75%

74
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Who was John Muher

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Father of conservation

75
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Who was Leopold

A

First to write philosophy of conservation

76
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Who was bob marshall

A

saved 100 million acres of american land and creared the wilderness society to protect wilderness

77
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Who was rosa ledge

A

proposed olympic national park

78
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Who was rachel carson

A

wrote silent spring

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