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| 4849000808 | Environmental Justice | The equal treatment of all people regardless of social grouping with regard to prevention and relief from environmental and health hazards. | 0 | |
| 4849002248 | Internal Costs | Includes manufacturing costs, labor, taxes, utilities, insurance, and rent. | 1 | |
| 4849002249 | External Costs | Borne by society and not the manufacturer; the environmental and human health costs paid by the rest of the society | 2 | |
| 4849004148 | Tragedy of the Commons | situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources, creating disaster for the entire community | 3 | |
| 4849004149 | Ecological Footprint | The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support a person or population. | 4 | |
| 4849014864 | GDP | Gross Domestic Product- the total market value of all final goods and services produced annually in an economy | 5 | |
| 4849022965 | I=PxAxT | Ecological Footprint Equation I-environmental impact, P-population, A-affluence, T-technology | 6 | |
| 4849051287 | non renewable resource | A resource that exists in a fixed amount or is used up more quickly than it can be replaced | 7 | |
| 4849053970 | perpetually renewable resource | are constantly replenished resources such as: sun, wind, waves, and geothermal. | 8 | |
| 4849056854 | potentially renewable resource | resources are potentially renewable as long as we do not consume more quickly than they can be replenished. Ground water, biomass, soil | 9 | |
| 4849071271 | non governmental organization (NGO) | An organization that operates independently of any government body but usually through individual volunteer efforts in private donations | 10 | |
| 4849083492 | polar molecule | Molecule with an unequal distribution of charge, resulting in the molecule having a positive end and a negative end | 11 | |
| 4849139067 | non polar molecule | Bonds between two identical atoms so the electrons are shard evenly and the molecule is symmetrical | 12 | |
| 4849143121 | first law of thermodynamics | Energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed. | 13 | |
| 4849144358 | second law of thermodynamics | when energy is changed from one form to another, some useful energy is always degraded into lower quality energy (usually heat) | 14 | |
| 4849145687 | positive feedback loop | Causes a system to change further in the same direction.; tends to move a system away from its equilibrium state and make it more unstable | 15 | |
| 4849164896 | pH scale | measurement system used to indicate the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in solution; ranges from 0 to 14 |  | 16 |
