4748502487 | Exponential growth | When a quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time such as 2% per year | 0 | |
4748502488 | Enviornmental science | Study of how the earth works how we interact with the earth and how to deal with enviornmental problems | 1 | |
4748502489 | Ecology | A biological science that studies the relationships between living organisms and their enviornment | 2 | |
4748502490 | Sustainability | Ability of earths various systems including human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing enviormental conditions indefinitley | 3 | |
4748502491 | Enviornmental sustainable society | Meets the basic resource needs of its people in a just and and equitable manner without degrading the natural capital that supplies these resources | 4 | |
4748502492 | Developed country | Most are highly industrialized and have a high average per capita GDP (1.2 billion people) | 5 | |
4748502493 | Developing country | Middle income modertaly developed (5.4 billion people) | 6 | |
4748502494 | Sustainable yeild | Highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply | 7 | |
4748502495 | Enviornmental degradation | Whenever we exceed a resources natural replacement rate the available supply begins to shrink | 8 | |
4748502496 | Common property | Free acess resources | 9 | |
4748502497 | Tragedy of the commons | The degradation if renewable free acess resources | 10 | |
4748502498 | Point source pollution | Single indentifiable sources | 11 | |
4748502499 | Nonpoint source pollution | Larger dispensed and often difficult to identify | 12 | |
4748502500 | Malnutrition | Lack of protein and other nutrients for good health | 13 | |
4748502501 | Affluenza | Unstainable addiction to overconsumption and materialism | 14 | |
4748502502 | Biodiversity | Great variety of genes species ecosystems and ecological process have provided | 15 | |
4748502503 | Aldo leopold | Believed the role of the human species should be to protect nature not conquer it published sand county almanac | 16 | |
4748502504 | John muir | Nature preservationist founded the sierra club | 17 | |
4748502505 | Gifford pinchot | First chief | 18 | |
4748502506 | Theodore roosevelt | President | 19 | |
4748502507 | Franklin roosevelt | Created the CCC | 20 | |
4748502508 | Rachel carson | Published silent spring | 21 | |
4748539386 | What are developed countries? | U.s, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand | 22 | |
4748541776 | What are developing countries | China India Brazil Mexico | 23 |
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