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| 4787900343 | developed country | country that is highly industrialized and has a high per capita GPA | 0 | |
| 4787900344 | developing country | country that has low to moderate industrialization and low to moderate per capita GDP; most are located in Africa, Asia, and Latin America | 1 | |
| 4787900345 | globalization | broad process of global social, economic, and environmental change that leads to an increasingly integrated world | 2 | |
| 4787900346 | sustainability | ability of Earth's various systems, including human cultural systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely | 3 | |
| 4787900347 | natural capital | natural resources and natural services that keep us and other species alive and support our economies | 4 | |
| 4787900348 | rule of 70 | doubling time (in years) = 70 / (percentage growth rate) | 5 | |
| 4787900349 | economic growth | increase in the capacity to provide people with goods and services; an increase in gross domestic product (GDP) | 6 | |
| 4787900350 | economic development | improvement of human living standards by economic growth | 7 | |
| 4787900351 | perpetual resource | essentially inexhaustible resource on a human time scale because it is renewed continuously | 8 | |
| 4787900352 | renewable resource | resource that can be replenished rapidly (hours to several decades) through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is replaced. If such a resource is used faster than it is replenished, it can be depleted and converted into a nonrenewable resource | 9 | |
| 4787900353 | nonrenewable resource | resource that exists in a fixed amount (stock) in the earth's crust and has the potential for renewal by geological, physical, and chemical processes taking place over hundreds of millions to billions of years. We classify these resources as exhaustible because we are extracting and using them at a much faster rate than they are formed | 10 | |
| 4787900354 | sustainable yield | highest rate at which a potentially renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply | 11 | |
| 4787900355 | anthropogenic | human-centered | 12 | |
| 4787900356 | environmental degradation | depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource such as soil, grassland, forest, or wildlife that is used faster than it is naturally replenished; if such use continues, the resource becomes nonrenewable (on a human time scale) or nonexistent (extinct) | 13 | |
| 4787900357 | per capita ecological footprint | amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply each person or population with the renewable resources they use and to absorb or dispose of the wastes from such resource use; it measures the average environmental impact of individuals or populations in different countries and areas | 14 | |
| 4787900358 | point source pollution | single identifiable source that discharges pollutants into the environment | 15 | |
| 4787900359 | nonpoint source pollution | large or dispersed land areas such as crop fields, streets, and lawns that discharge pollutants into the environment over a large area | 16 | |
| 4787900360 | ecological footprint | amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply a population with the renewable resources it uses and to absorb or dispose of the wastes from such resource use; it measures the average environmental impact of populations in different countries and areas | 17 | |
| 4787900361 | Tragedy of the Commons | depletion or degradation of a potentially renewable resource to which people have free and unmanaged access | 18 | |
| 4787900362 | Aldo Leopold | believed the role of the human species should be to protect nature, not conquer it | 19 | |
| 4787900363 | per capita GDP | annual gross domestic product of a country divided by its total population at midyear; it gives the average slice of the economic pie per person; used to be called per capital gross national product | 20 | |
| 4787900364 | Tragedy of the Commons | Example: depletion of commercially desirable fish species in the open ocean beyond areas controlled by coastal countries | 21 | |
| 4787900365 | point source pollution | Example: smokestack of a power plant or an industrial plant, drainpipe of a meatpacking plant, chimney of a house, or exhaust pipe of an automobile | 22 | |
| 4787900366 | nonrenewable resource | Example: copper, aluminum, coal and oil | 23 | |
| 4787900367 | renewable resource | Example: trees in forests, grasses in grasslands, wild animals, fresh surface water in lakes and streams, most groundwater, fresh air, and fertile soil | 24 | |
| 4787900368 | per capita | per person | 25 |
