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| 876004897 | Exponential Growth | Growth in which a quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time | 1 | |
| 876004898 | Environment | The sum total of all living and nonliving things that affect any living organism | 2 | |
| 876004899 | Environmental Science | An interdisciplinary science that examines how humans and human institutions interact with the natural world | 3 | |
| 876004900 | Ecology | A biological science that studies relationship between living organisms and their environments | 4 | |
| 876004901 | Environmentalism | A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life-support systems for us and other species | 5 | |
| 876004902 | Sustainability | The ability of earth's systems to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely | 6 | |
| 876004903 | Natural Capital | The natural resources and services that keep us and other species alive and support our economies | 7 | |
| 876004904 | Solar Capital | The energy from the sun that warms the planet and supports photosynthesis | 8 | |
| 876004905 | Sound Science | Concepts and ideas that are widely accepted by experts in a particular field of the natural or social sciences | 9 | |
| 876004906 | Environmentally Sustainable Society | A society that meets the current and future needs of its people for basic resources in a way that will preserve them for future generations | 10 | |
| 876004907 | Economic Growth | An increase in the capacity of a country to provide people with goods and services | 11 | |
| 876004908 | Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | The annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms within a country | 12 | |
| 876004909 | Gross National Product (GNP) | The annual market value of all the goods and services produced by a nation's firms, no matter where they are located | 13 | |
| 876004910 | Economic Development | The improvement of human living standards by economic growth | 14 | |
| 876004911 | Developed Countries | Highly industrialized countries with high average per capita GDP; includes the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and most European countries | 15 | |
| 876004912 | Developing Countries | Countries with medium or low levels of industrialization that have medium or low levels of per capita GDP; included countries such as China, India, Brazil, Mexico and many African Countries. | 16 | |
| 876004913 | Resource | Anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs | 17 | |
| 876004914 | Perpetual Resource | A resource that is renewed continuously | 18 | |
| 876004915 | Renewable Resource | A resource that can be replenished fairly quickly as long as it is not used up faster than it can be replenished | 19 | |
| 876004916 | Sustainable Yield | The highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used without reducing available supply | 20 | |
| 876004917 | Environmental Degradation | When the available supply of a resource is lower than the amount being used | 21 | |
| 876004918 | Common-Property | Property that individuals do not or cannot own | 22 | |
| 876004919 | Tragedy of the Commons | Degradation of free-access resources due to little or no regulation | 23 | |
| 876004920 | Ecological Footprint | The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply an area with resources and to absorb the waste and pollution produced | 24 | |
| 876004921 | Per Capita Ecological Footprint | The average ecological footprint of an individual in an area | 25 | |
| 876004922 | Recycling | Collecting waste materials to be processed into new products | 26 | |
| 876004923 | Reuse | Using a resource over and over again in the same form | 27 | |
| 876004924 | Pollution | The presence of chemicals at high enough of a level in the environment to threaten the health, survival or activities of living organisms | 28 | |
| 876004925 | Point Sources | Single, identifiable sources of pollution | 29 | |
| 876004926 | Non-point Sources | Widespread, dispersed sources of pollution that are often hard to identify and locate | 30 | |
| 876004927 | Pollution Prevention (Input Pollution Control) | Reduced or eliminates production of pollution | 31 | |
| 876004928 | Pollution Cleanup (Output Pollution Control) | Cleanup or dilution of pollutants after they have been produced | 32 | |
| 876004929 | Poverty | The inability to meet one's basic economic needs | 33 | |
| 876004930 | Affluence | Unsustainable addiction to overconsumption and materialism | 34 | |
| 876004931 | Frontier Environmental Worldview | View of North America as having vast resources meant to be conquered for human use | 35 | |
| 876004932 | Environmental Worldview | Set of assumptions and values about how you think the world works | 36 | |
| 876004933 | Environmental Ethics | Belief of what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment | 37 | |
| 876004934 | Planetary Management Worldview | Idea that nature exists to meet our needs and increasing wants; assumes that economic growth is infinite | 38 | |
| 876004935 | Stewardship Worldview | Idea that we can manage the earth for our own benefit, but also have a responsibility to manage the earth's systems sustainably | 39 | |
| 876004936 | Environmental Wisdom Worldview | Holds that we are part of and dependent on nature and that nature exists for all species | 40 | |
| 876004937 | Four Scientific Principles of Sustainability | Reliance on Solar Energy, Biodiversity, Population Control, Nutrient Recycling | 41 | |
| 876004938 | Social Capital | Involves cooperation of people to solve world problems | 42 | |
| 876004939 | John Muir | Early advocate of wildlife preservation; helped preserve many national parks and wildlife preservation areas | 43 |
