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14 Cards in this Set
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Stewardship
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preserving environment, taking care, individual responsibility, poactive, raising awareness, morals, ethics - connects with sustainability
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Sound Science
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Science and results that are based on fair and true inferences and reasoning
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Junk Science
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Science and results that are based on false inference or faulty reasoning
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Ecological Footprint
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How much area you use up. Area to raise your food, transportation, manufacturing...
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NIMBY
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Not In My BackYard
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Environmental Justice
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accoutability, protection, equity, justice amongst people - most pollution in poorer communities
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Goods and Services
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Goods (Air, Lumber, Water, Food) items provided by environment, Services (Cleaning water, Decomposition, Flood prevention) processes provided by enviroment
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Biodiversity
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H' - combines how many species (richness) with distrubution of individuals among species (H'=-Sum[Pi*ln(Pi)])
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Species Richness
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(S) - How many species are present
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Density
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(D) - Average # of individuals in 1 square on tray
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Eutrophication
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A process where a body of water receives excess nutrients that stimulates plant growth
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Sustainability
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The ability of an ecosystem to sustain itself. Only a certain amount of energy can be taken out to sustain the environment.
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Environmental Racism
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Isolating and exploiting one specific race. ie. dumping toxic chemicals in a predominantly black neighborhood.
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Ion
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An atom or group of atoms that are normally electrically nuetral but gain their status be addition or loss of an electron.
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