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Flashcards by Rachael Mullins, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rachael Mullins
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Sustainability | The capacity of the earth's natural systems and human cultural systems to survive, flourish, and adapt to changing environmental conditions in the very long-term future. |
| Environment | Everything around us nonliving and living (air, water, energy) that we interact within a complex web of relationships. |
| Environmental Science | An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment. |
| Goal #1 of Environmental Science | To learn how life on Earth has survived and thrived |
| Goal #2 of Environmental Science | To understand how we interact with the environment |
| Goal #3 of Environmental Science | To find ways to deal with environmental problems and live more sustainably |
| Ecology | The biological science that studies how living things interact with one another and with their environment |
| Organisms | A living thing |
| Species | A set of organisms that has a unique set of characteristics that distinguish it from other groups of organisms |
| Ecosystem | A set of organisms within a defined area or volume that interact with one another and with their environment of nonliving matter and energy |
| Environmentalism | a social movement dedicated to trying to protect the earth's life-support systems for all forms of life |
| Scientific Principles of Sustainability | The idea that we must be dependent on solar energy, chemical cycling, and biodiversity, for a more sustainable future. |
| Solar Energy | The sun powers wind and flowing water which can produce electricity |
| Biodiversity | A variety of genes of organisms, species, and ecosystems |
| Nutrients | Chemicals needed for life processes |
| Chemical Cycling | The circulation of chemicals necessary for life from the environment |
| Natural Capital | The naturals resources and natural services that keep us and other species alive and support human economies |
| Natural Resources | Materials and energy in nature that are useful and essential to humans |
| Natural Services | Processes provided by a healthy ecosystem |
| Social Science Principles of Sustainability | The use of economics, ethics, and political science to support the scientific principals of sustainability |
| Full Cost Pricing | Including the price of environmental and health harms caused by the production of goods in the products price |
| Win-win Solutions | A political science approach of having both parties benefit. In this case, I win-you win-the Earth wins |
| Responsibility to Future Generations | We need to leave the planet in good conditions for future generations |
| Resource | Anything we can obtain from the environment to meet our needs and wants |
| Inexhaustible Resource | There is a continuous supply |
| Renewable Resource | Can be replenished by natural processes as long as we do not use it faster than it can renew |
| Sustainable Yield | The highest rate at which we can use a resource indefinitely without reducing the available supply |
| Nonrenewable Resources | Exist in limited quantities and can not be renewed by natural proccesses |
| Four R's | Reduce, Reuse, Refuse, Recycle |
| More Developed Countries (MDC) | Industrialized nations with a high average income |
| Less Developed Countries (LDC) | Low average income with high population (83% of the world population) |
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