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29 Cards in this Set
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Scientific principles for sustainable energy |
Solar energy Biodiversity Chemical cycling |
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Environmental science |
Study of how humans interact with living and non living part of their environment |
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3 goals of environmental science |
1) learn how life on earth has survived and thrived 2) understand how we interact with the environment 3) find ways to deal with environmental problems and live more sustainably (solutions) |
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Sustainability |
systems to survive, flourish, and adapt in long term |
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Ecology |
Biological study of how living things interact with one another in their environment |
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Ecology |
Biological study of how living things interact with one another in their environment |
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Organisms |
Living things |
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Ecology |
Biological study of how living things interact with one another in their environment |
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Organisms |
Living things |
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Species |
A group of organisms |
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Ecosystem |
A set of organisms within a defined area that interact with one another with their environment and nonliving matter and energy |
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Environmentalism |
A social movement dedicated to trying to protect the earth life-support systems for all forms of life |
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3 Scientific principles of sustainability |
Dependence on solar energy Biodiversity Chemical cycling |
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Natural capital |
The natural resources and natural services that keep us another species alive and support human economies |
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Natural services or ecosystem services |
Processes provided by healthy ecosystems |
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Natural resources |
Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans |
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Examples of natural services or ecosystem services |
Purification of air and water Renewal of topsoil Pollination |
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Vital natural service |
Chemical/nutrient cycling |
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Topsoil |
A vital natural resource that provides food for land animals |
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Degrade natural capital |
Using normally renewable resources faster than a nature can restore them |
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Three principles of sustainability from social sciences |
Full cost pricing: (economics) clothes harmful environmental and health costs producing and using goods and services
Win win: (political science) Responsibility to future generations: ( Ethics) |
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Resource |
Anything that we can obtain from the environment to meet our needs and wants |
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Inexhaustible resource |
The sun continue to supply |
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Renewable resource |
When that can be replenished by natural process within hours to centuries as long as it's not used up faster |
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Sustainable yield |
The highest rate at which we can use a renewable resource indefinitely without reducing it's available supply |
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Non renewable/ exhaustible resources |
Exist in a fixed quantity or stock in the earths crust |
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How to sustain nonrenewable resources |
Refuse Reduce Reuse Recycle |
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More developed countries |
17% us Canada Japan Australia Europe |
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Less developed countries |
83% |
