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56 Cards in this Set
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Low Developing countries Low level of industrilization, high fertility, high infant mortality, low income
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Increasing global population
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Stress on the enviornment, food, water, energy and raw materials.
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Renewable Recources
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are resources that natural processes replace
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Non renewable Recources
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natural resources that are in short supplies and are depleated as they are used
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Overpopulation
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too many people live in a given geographical area
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Enviornmental inpact formula
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I=PAT Impact, people affluence and Technology
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Enviornmental Sustainability
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The ability to meet humanitys current needs without compromising the ability of future of generations to meet their needs.
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human behavior that threatens sustainability
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overuse of renewable and non renewable resources, pollutiona and over population
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Biotic
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Living
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Abiotic
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Non living
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Enviornmental Science
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Intediciplinary study of humans relationship with other organisms and the non living enviornment
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Scientific Method
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Find a problem, form a hypothesis, testing, data and a conclusion
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Sustainable Development
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Economic growth that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability fo future generations to meet their own needs.
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Sustainable consumption
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the use of goods and services that satisfies basic human needs and minimize the use of resources
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Enviornmental ethics
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a feil that applies ethics that considers the moral basis of enviornmental responsibility
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Enviornmental worldview
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is a worldview that helps us make sense of how the enviornment works
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Western worldview
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understanding our place in the world based on human superiority and dominance over nature
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deep ecology worldview
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understanding our place in the world based on harmony with nature a spiritual respect for life and beleif that all humans and species are equal
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Voluntary simplicity
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happiness is not linked to material wealth
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Enviornmental Justice
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right of every citizen to protection from enviornmental hazards
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Carrying capacity
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the max population that can be sustained by a given enviornment
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Biodiversity
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The sum of the earths organisms
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Ecosystem srevices
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inportant enviornmental beleifs such as clean air and water
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conservation
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is the areful manegement of natural resources such as air water, soil, fforests, minerals and wildlife. setting aside land from human activity
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Enviornmental History
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john james Audubon (artist), wildlife. Henery David Thoreau ( writer Walden
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Aldo leopold
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Sand county Almanac
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Rachel CArson
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Silent Spring
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Utilitarian Conservationist
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a person who values natural resources because of their usefulness and uses them carefuly
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Biocentric preservationist
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is a person who believes in protecting nature because of all forms of lifedeserve respect and consideration
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Dept of agriculture
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Pinchot NEPA
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Full cost accounting
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The process of evaluating and presenting to decisions makers
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natural Capital
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the earths resources and processes that sustain living organisms
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External costs
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a harmful enviornmental or social cost that is bore by people not buying or selling a product
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marginal cost of pollution
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the trade off between harmful enviornment and inhibition of development
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marginal cost of pollution abatement
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cost for all present and future menbers of society reducing one unit of a given type of pollution
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optimum amount of pollution
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the amount of pollution that is economically most desirable
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command and control regulations
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as a control to pollution the govenment set limits
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Incentive based regulations
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pollution control laws that work by establishing emmision targets
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Ecology
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study of the interaction among organisms and between their abiotic enviornment
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population
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is a group of organisms of the same species that live together in the same area at the same time
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Communtiy
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association of all the populations of different species that live and interact together
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Landscape
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a regjion that includes several interacting ecosystems
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Biosphere
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the layer of the earth containing all living organisms
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producer
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manufactures large molecules from simple inorganic substances
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Consumers
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cant make its own food and used the bodies of other organisms as a source of energy and building materials
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Decomposers
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are micro oraganisms that break down dead organic material and use the decomposition products to supply themselves with energy
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Energy flow
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is the passage of energy in a one way direction trough and ecosystem
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Biochemical cycles
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are the processes by which matter cycles from the living world to the non living, physical enviornment and back again
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Ecological Niches
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the totality of an organisms adaptations its use of resources and the lifestyle that it is fitted to.
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Resource partitioning
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the reduction in competition for enviornmental resources such as food
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Symbiosis
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is and intimete relationship between species
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Commensensalism
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One species benefits but does not hurt the other
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Parasitism
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one species benefits at theothers expense
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Predation
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is the consumption of one species (the prey) by another(the preditor)
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Competition
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inter species vie for the same resources
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keystone species
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crucial in determining the nature and structure of the ecosystem that it lives in
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