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| 14713225337 | Environmental Science | examines interactions among human and natural science systems | 0 | |
| 14713229598 | Enviornmentalism | a social movement that seeks to protect the environment | 1 | |
| 14713245995 | Ecosystem | location on earth with interacting biotic (living) and abiotic (non living) components. | 2 | |
| 14713253274 | environment | the sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life | 3 | |
| 14713237754 | Bitoic | living (trees, plants, animals, human) | 4 | |
| 14713237755 | Abiotic | Non-living (water, wind, temperature, soil, pollution, sunlight) | 5 | |
| 14713258108 | Environmentalist | seeks to protect the environment through lobbying and activism | 6 | |
| 14713261506 | environmental scientist | - Follows observation - hypothesis testing - field and laboratory research | 7 | |
| 14713270882 | System | a set of components that function and interact in some regular way | 8 | |
| 14713275519 | 4 categories of ecosystem services | - provisioning - regulating - cultural - supporting | 9 | |
| 14713278508 | provisioning services | timber, fur, meat, crops, clean water, and fiber | 10 | |
| 14713280205 | regulating services | climate regulation, flood control, and water purification | 11 | |
| 14713288649 | cultural services | spiritual/aesthetic or recreational benefits | 12 | |
| 14713292548 | supporting services | nutrient cycles and crop pollination | 13 | |
| 14713391478 | Direct Benefit | providing food, water, and materials for shelter | 14 | |
| 14713394481 | indirect benefits | providing a diversity of conditions, nutrients, and species which make a healthier ecosystem for all organisms including humans | 15 | |
| 14713397291 | 5 global environmental indicators (describe the current state of our ecosystem) | - biological diversity - food production - average global surface temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere - human population - resource depletion |  | 16 |
| 14713405896 | Biodiversity | The diversity of life forms in an environment | 17 | |
| 14713411846 | Genetic Diversity | a measure of the genetic variation among individuals in a population | 18 | |
| 14713414758 | species diversity | The number and relative abundance of species in a biological community. (more species the better) | 19 | |
| 14713422422 | Habitat Diversity | the different kinds of habitats in a given unit area | 20 | |
| 14713424661 | Resilience | ability to return original condition | 21 | |
| 14713441811 | Speciation | the evolution of new species | 22 | |
| 14713443820 | Background Exinction Rate | the average rate at which species become extinct. (very slow) | 23 | |
| 14713447230 | indicator species | Plants and animals that by its presence, abundance, scarcity, or chemical composition demonstrate that distinctive aspect of character quality of an ecosystem it presents. | 24 | |
| 14713463738 | Greenhouse gas | traps heat that has been radiated from Earth and keeps it from being lost to space (CO2 is one) | 25 | |
| 14713472955 | Anthropogenic | derived from human activities and can disrupt ecosystem services, potentially resulting in ecological consequences (pollutants) | 26 | |
| 14713780209 | 1. fossil fuel combustion 2. net loss of forest | Where does anthropogenic CO2 come from? | 27 | |
| 14713790684 | environmental factors especially available resources and space | What is population growth limited by? | 28 | |
| 14713797605 | renewable resource | environment continues to supply - grown & harvested indefinitely - timber, humanism (recycled) | 29 | |
| 14713804058 | Non-renewable resources | cannot be reused or replaced easily (ex. gems, iron, copper, fossil fuels, coal, oil) | 30 | |
| 14741120370 | Overshoot | when a population becomes larger than the environment's carrying capacity (K) | 31 | |
| 14713822778 | effects of population overshoot | environmental impacts: resource depletion ecological impact: drawback of population because lack of resources. cause famine disease and/or conflict | 32 | |
| 14713839696 | Resource use of MEDC'S vs. LEDC's | - developed use more resources but also have financial resources to implement protections | 33 | |
| 14713849713 | Sustainability | using resources without depleting for future generations (complex) | 34 | |
| 14713863554 | Sustainable development | Development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations | 35 | |
| 14713873594 | exponential | Population Growth is rate is _____ | 36 | |
| 14713875485 | Urbanization | the growth of cities/urban areas... can lead to resource depletion and salt water intrusion in the hydrologic cycle | 37 | |
| 14713880991 | Ecological Footprint | compare resource demands & waste production required for an individual or society | 38 | |
| 14718479170 | _____ is essential to organisms survival | energy | 39 | |
| 14718481494 | ________ absorb energy from environment | living organisms | 40 | |
| 14718487409 | Most energy on earth derives from the ______. | sun | 41 | |
| 14718489113 | Potential Energy | stored energy that has not been released | 42 | |
| 14718494885 | Chemical Energy | potential energy stored in chemical bonds | 43 | |
| 14718496368 | kinetic energy | energy of motion | 44 | |
| 14718497887 | Temperature | measure of the average kinetic energy of a substance | 45 | |
| 14718501032 | 1st law of thermodynamics | Energy cannot be created or destroyed | 46 | |
| 14718504325 | 2nd law of thermodynamics | when energy is transformed, the quantity of energy remains the same, but its ability to do work diminishes | 47 | |
| 14718507149 | systems | _____ have energy and matter (inputs/outputs) | 48 | |
| 14718509373 | Law of Thermodynamics | explains the less of energy that occurs when energy moves from lower trophic levels to higher trophic levels | 49 | |
| 14718522956 | Open System | a system in which exchanges of matter or energy occur across system boundaries (EX: the ocean/earth; more common) | 50 | |
| 14718522957 | Closed System | a system in which matter and energy exchanges do not occur across boundaries (EX: underground cave; less common) | 51 | |
| 14718529158 | Input | Something put into a system (ex: resources) | 52 | |
| 14718529159 | output | a loss from a system | 53 | |
| 14718533167 | Steady State | a state in which inputs equal outputs, so that the system is not changing over time | 54 | |
| 14718538069 | Feedbacks | adjustments in input or output rates caused by changes to a system | 55 | |
| 14718539803 | positive feedback loop | change in a system is amplified | 56 | |
| 14718541731 | negative feedback loop | pushes a system back to equilibrium; resists change | 57 |
