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| 10771956039 | Biodiversity | the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. |  | 0 |
| 10772025656 | Biocapacity | The capacity of a country, a region, or the world, to produce useful biological materials for its human population and to absorb waste materials. |  | 1 |
| 10772143653 | Biomimicry | learning from ecosystems and adapting their characteristics to human and organizational situations. |  | 2 |
| 10772163036 | chemical cycling | the use and reuse of chemical elements such as carbon and nitrogen within the ecosystem |  | 3 |
| 10772170874 | earth-centered environmental worldview | holds that we are part of, and dependent on, nature and that the earth's life-support system exists for all species, not just for us |  | 4 |
| 10777781977 | ecological footprint | the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources. |  | 5 |
| 10777783553 | Ecology | Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment |  | 6 |
| 10777784628 | Ecosystem | A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. |  | 7 |
| 10777786477 | ecosystem services | the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced |  | 8 |
| 10777787737 | environment | every non-genetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us |  | 9 |
| 10777788485 | environmental degradation | damage to or destruction of the natural environment. When such damage occurs, habitats are destroyed, biodiversity is lost, or natural resources are used up |  | 10 |
| 10777792292 | environmental ethics | the application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment |  | 11 |
| 10777794883 | Environmental Science | The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature |  | 12 |
| 10777799288 | environmental worldview | A worldview that encompasses how people think the world works, how they view their role in it, and what they believe to be proper behavior regarding the environment. | 13 | |
| 10777802466 | Environmentalism | A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life support systems for us and other species. | 14 | |
| 10777815185 | environmentally sustainable society | Society that meets the current and future needs of its people for basic resources in a just and equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations of humans and other species from meeting their basic needs. | 15 | |
| 10777820867 | Exhaustible Resources | A natural resource that cannot be increased by the natural forces of the environment.Ex:petroleum, coal, and natural gas | 16 | |
| 10777835547 | exponential growth | 17 | ||
| 10777837971 | Full-cost pricing | 18 | ||
| 10777840355 | human-centered environmental worldview | sees the natural world primarily as a support system for human life | 19 | |
| 10777842215 | inexhaustible resource | natural resource that will not run out, no matter how much of it people use | 20 | |
| 10777843114 | less developed countries | countries at a relatively low level of economic development | 21 | |
| 10777902071 | life-centered environmental worldview | all species have value as participating members of the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to humans | 22 | |
| 10777903190 | More Developed Country | 23 | ||
| 10777905536 | natural capital | Natural resources and natural services that keep us and other species alive and support our economies. | 24 | |
| 10777907338 | natural capital degradation | occurs when human activities use renewable resources faster than they can be replenished | 25 | |
| 10777909233 | natural income | Renewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil provided by natural capital. | 26 | |
| 10777909234 | natural resources | Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain | 27 | |
| 10777911658 | nonrenewable resources | a resource that cannot be replaced | 28 | |
| 10777916048 | nutrient cycling | The circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment (mostly from soil and water) through organisms and back to the environment. | 29 | |
| 10777916888 | per capita ecological footprint | the average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area | 30 | |
| 10777917534 | poverty | Inability to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter. | 31 | |
| 10777918577 | renewable resource | A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed | 32 | |
| 10777918578 | resource | A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use. | 33 | |
| 10777920880 | scientific principles of sustainability | dependence on solar energy, biodiversity, chemical cycling | 34 | |
| 10777923812 | solar energy | energy from the sun | 35 | |
| 10777925019 | Sustainability | The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained | 36 | |
| 10777926376 | revoultion | earth's year round orbit around the sun | 37 | |
| 10777931477 | sustainable yield | Highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply | 38 |
