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37 Cards in this Set
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Exponential Growth |
A quantity that increase at an exponential rate |
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Environment |
Everything that affects a living organism |
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Ecology |
Biological science that studies the relationship between organisms and the environment they live in |
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Environmental Science |
Study that uses information from physical sciences and social sciences to learn how the world works |
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Environmentalism |
Social movement dedicated to preserving the earth's life support systems |
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Solar Energy |
Direct sunlight and indirect forms of renewable solar energy |
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Natural Resources |
Resources provide by earth |
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Carrying Capacity |
The maximum amount of organisms that can be maintained in a specific area without degrading the environment |
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Cultural carrying capacity |
maximum number of people that can live in an area without degrading the environment |
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Sustainability |
refers to the length of time a system can survive for. |
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Environmentally Sustainable Society |
An environment that meets the needs of people and can sustain other life as well |
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Economic Growth |
Increase in capacity to meet the needs of people |
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Gross Domestic Product |
The annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations in a country |
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Per capita Gdp |
GDP/ the total population at midyear |
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Economic Development |
Improvement of living standards in a country |
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Globalization |
Process of soical, economic, and environmental expansion that leads to interconnecting countrys |
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Perpetual Resource |
A resource that is renewed constantly, for the next 6 billion years |
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Renewable resource |
Can be replenished fairly rapidly through natural processes. |
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Sustainable yield |
Highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitley without reducing its supply |
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Environmental degradation |
Exceding a renawble resources growth rate |
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Tragedy of the commons |
Degradation of renwable free-acces resources |
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Per capita ecological footprint |
Amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply each person with renwable resources |
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Global Hectare |
measure of ecological footprint |
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Biological capacity |
Amount of land that is actually availible to produce renwable resources and to absorb wastes |
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Pollution |
Presence of harmfull substances that can threaten health, survival. |
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Pollutants |
Can enter the environment naturally (volcanoes) |
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Point sources |
Single identifiable sources of pollution |
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Non point sources |
Polluntants are dispersed and hard to identify |
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Pollution prevention input |
Reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants |
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Pollution cleanup (output) |
Involves cleaning up or diluting pollutants after they have produced. |
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Affluenza |
Term used to describe the unsustainable addiction to overconsumption |
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Envrionmental worldview |
How you think the world works |
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Planetary management world view |
We are in charge of nature, we will not run out of resources |
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Stewardship world view |
Ethical responsibility to care for the rest of nature. |
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Environmental wisdom worldview |
We are not in charge for all species, resources are limited, we encourage sustaining economic growth |
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Environmentally sustainable economic development |
Making development choices and supporting economic activities that work with the environment |
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