Week 2 Textbook Readings: Environmental Indicators and Sustainability Flashcards
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Ecosystem services
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The processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced
2
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Speciation
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The evolution of new species
3
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Environmental indicator
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An indicator that describes the current state of an environmental system
(ex: biodiversity, food production, average global surface temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, human population, resource depletion)
4
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Background extinction rate
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The average rate at which species become extinct over the long term
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Anthropogenic
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Derived from human activities
6
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Ecological footprint
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A measure of how much an individual consumes, expressed in area of land
