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10559525734ResourceA substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use0
10559526977Point Source Pollutionpollution that comes from a specific site1
10559529398Non-point Source Pollutionpollution that does not have a specific point of release2
10569681200EcologyScientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment3
10569700265Biodiversitythe variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem4
10569701413EcosystemA biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment5
10616494457Ecological Footprintthe impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources6
10616496138Affluencewealth; richness7
10642862689Tragedy of the Commonsa parable that illustrates why common resources are used more than is desirable from the standpoint of society as a whole8
10642868188Natural IncomeRenewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil provided by natural capital9
10642871943Exponential GrowthGrowth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate10
107321504641st Law of ThermodynamicsEnergy cannot be created or destroyed11
107321504652nd Law of ThermodynamicsEvery energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe12
10732150466Negative Feedback LoopA feedback loop that causes a system to change in the opposite direction from which it is moving13
10732150467Positive Feedback LoopCauses a system to change further in the same direction14

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