10559525734 | Resource | A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use | 0 | |
10559526977 | Point Source Pollution | pollution that comes from a specific site | 1 | |
10559529398 | Non-point Source Pollution | pollution that does not have a specific point of release | 2 | |
10569681200 | Ecology | Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment | 3 | |
10569700265 | Biodiversity | the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem | 4 | |
10569701413 | Ecosystem | A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment | 5 | |
10616494457 | 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 | 6 | |
10616496138 | Affluence | wealth; richness | 7 | |
10642862689 | Tragedy of the Commons | a parable that illustrates why common resources are used more than is desirable from the standpoint of society as a whole | 8 | |
10642868188 | Natural Income | Renewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil provided by natural capital | 9 | |
10642871943 | Exponential Growth | Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate | 10 | |
10732150464 | 1st Law of Thermodynamics | Energy cannot be created or destroyed | 11 | |
10732150465 | 2nd Law of Thermodynamics | Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe | 12 | |
10732150466 | Negative Feedback Loop | A feedback loop that causes a system to change in the opposite direction from which it is moving | 13 | |
10732150467 | Positive Feedback Loop | Causes a system to change further in the same direction | 14 |
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