Unit 1 Test

Question 1

Utilitarian Footprint

Answer 1

seeks to protect useful resources. Should be used for the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time. Connects to pragmatic resource conservation and Roosevelt

Question 2

Biocentric Conservation

Answer 2

emphasizes the fundamental rights of other organisms to exist and pursue their own interests. Connect tomorrow and aesthetic nature rpreservation and John Muir

Question 3

Environmentalism

Answer 3

helped get started by Rachel Carson. It concerns are extended to include both environmental resources and pollution.

Question 4

Global Environmentalism

Answer 4

modern media now allows people to see and become engaged with environmentalism
Robert Marshall

Question 5

Moral Extensionism

Answer 5

means extending value beyond ourselves. Is the growth of our moral value circle to new places people and things

Question 6

Inherent Value

Answer 6

an intrinsic right to exist. The value and puts on one’s life. We should protect them just because they exist, regardless of their value to us

Question 7

Instrumental value

Answer 7

usefulness to someone. The value someone else puts on one’s life. We should protect them because of their usefulness to us in the form of numerous economic and ecological services.

Question 8

Stewardship

Answer 8

taking care of the resources we are given

Question 9

Environmental Justice

Answer 9

involves human rights and environmental justice. Combines civil rights with environmental protection to demand a safe healthy life giving environment for everyone

Question 10

LULUs

Answer 10

Locally unwanted land uses. Toxic waste sites incinerators or major landfills

Question 11

Extreme Poverty

Answer 11

less than $1 a day

Question 12

Toxic Colonialism

Answer 12

The practice of targeting poor communities of color in the developing nations for waste and disposal or experimentation with risky technologies

Question 13

Deductive Reasoning

Answer 13

logical reasoning from general to specific

Question 14

inductive reasoning

Answer 14

reasoning from many observations to produce a general rule. Specific to general

Question 15

Throughput

Answer 15

Energy and matter that flow into, through, and out of a system

Question 16

Positive feedback loop

Answer 16

when a flow leads to changes that further enhance the flow (usually not good)

Question 17

negative feedback loop

Answer 17

dampens flow. Usually good. Suppresses change. Increases in a state variable lead to further increases in that state variable

Question 18

Ecology

Answer 18

The scientific study of the relationship between organisms and their environment

Question 19

conservation of matter

Answer 19

The idea that matter cannot be created or destroyed

Question 20

pH

Answer 20

The negative logarithm of its concentration of H ions

Question 21

organic compounds

Answer 21

serial making a pie or molecules which in turn make up living things

Question 22

first law of thermodynamics

Answer 22

Energy is neither created or destroyed

Question 23

2nd law of thermodynamics

Answer 23

with each successive Energy transfer, less energy is available to perform work

Question 24

biological community

Answer 24

All of the populations of organisms living in interacting in a particular area

Question 25

biomass

Answer 25

biological material

Question 26

Lipids

Answer 26

Store energy for cells and provide core of cell membranes

Question 27

Carbohydrates

Answer 27

also store energy and provide structure

Question 28

proteins

Answer 28

provide structure, regulate cell activity

Question 29

Nucleic Acids

Answer 29

carry info between cells, tissues, and organs. Source of energy for cells. Store and express genetic info

Question 30

carbon sink

Answer 30

Accumulates carbon

Question 31

Carbon flux

Answer 31

amount of carbon exchange between earths carbon pools