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| 410070334 | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | provided convincing evidence that human-induced climate change is already severely impacting global climate and sea level | |
| 410070335 | Kyoto Protocol Goal | an international agreement among the developed nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (the US is still not part of this) | |
| 410070336 | biodiversity | variablility among living organisms and the ecological complexes of which they are part | |
| 410070337 | reasons for loss of biodiversity: | conversion of land and pollution species declining in range and population | |
| 410070338 | environmental science | study of how the world works | |
| 410070339 | environmental science: | gives answers that allows societies to make changes consistent with a sustainable future | |
| 410070340 | environmentalists | people and organizations with a strong focus on environmental concerns | |
| 410070341 | environmentalism | widespread development of the environmental movement | |
| 410070342 | Rachel Carson | wrote 'silent spring' in 60's which alerted the public about the dangers of pesticides and their role in rapidly declining bird populations. Example of sterwardship. | |
| 410070343 | sound science*** | understanding how the world works and how we interact with it | |
| 410070344 | sustainability*** | a process which can be continued infinitely without depleting the energy or material resources on which it depends, a goal we should be working toward | |
| 410070345 | stewardship*** | managing natural resources and promoting human well-being for the common good | |
| 410070346 | junk science | presented as science but does not conform to the rigorous methods of legitimate science | |
| 410070347 | scientific method | observation hypothesis test explanation observations | |
| 410070348 | natural laws | laws by which we define and predict the matter and energy | |
| 410070349 | Controversies exist: | becuase there is bias, new info, subjective values (different feelings about issues) | |
| 410070350 | sustainable ecosystems | natural systems that thrive over time by recycling nutrients, maintain a diversity of species and use sun as a source of energy | |
| 410070351 | sustainable development | progress that meets needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet needs | |
| 410070352 | development | imporvement of human well-being | |
| 410070353 | globalization*** | acceleration interconnectedness of human activities, ideas, and cultures -little to do to improve economic well-being -western culture being marketed throughout the world | |
| 410070354 | human population | j-shaped | |
| 410070355 | the cause of overexploitation of resources | is overpopulation | |
| 410070356 | China's example demonstrates that economic growth can lift millions out of poverty and establish a country's strong place in the world market | But this growth comes at the cost of natural resources and harming the health of their people (toxic water, polluted air) | |
| 410070357 | economic growth | can lift people out of poverty but not sustainable when the growth is at the cost of natural resources and health | |
| 410070358 | economics | social science that deals with production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services | |
| 410070359 | economy | system of exchanges of goods and services worked out by member sof society | |
| 410070360 | economic systems | social and legal arrangements of ppl constucted to satisfy their needs and wants | |
| 410070361 | free market economy occurs with | democracies | |
| 410070362 | rulers make all | basic decisions in a centurally planned economy | |
| 410070363 | no country has a pure system of either economy!! | ... | |
| 410070364 | market economies only offer access to goods and services | ... | |
| 410070365 | Sustainable economy characteristics | -imporve human well-being vs promoting growth -value and preserve ecosystem goods and services vs drawing down natural capital -use the precautionary principle to minimize risks vs promoting damaging technologies -businesses will eagerly provide green products | |
| 410070366 | ecological economists | argue that the environment encompasses teh economy, not the other way around | |
| 410070367 | econimic production | the process of converting the natural world to the manufactured world | |
| 410070368 | produced capital | goods and services-human made products | |
| 410070369 | natural capital | goods and services supplied by natural ecosystems | |
| 410070370 | renewable natural capital can be depleted if not managed wisely | nonrenewable natural capital can be depleted | |
| 410070371 | GDP is flawed | it does not include goods created and services preformed by a family for itself omits natural services from ecosy clean air is not included in GDP | |
| 410070372 | GPI | assumes some economic activities are positive and negative | |
| 410070373 | human capital | populations physical psychological and cultural attributes | |
| 410070374 | social capital | societal and political environment | |
| 410070375 | knowledge assets | knowledge that can be transferred to others | |
| 410070376 | intragenerational equity | making possible for others what is possible for you | |
| 410070377 | intergenarational equity | meeting needs of present without harming the ability of tfutre generations to meet their needs | |
| 410070378 | ***laws protecting the environment are not luxuries to be tolerated only if they do not interfere with freedom of economic development | part of the foundation of human society they are essential for sustainibility | |
| 410070379 | Payments for ecosystem services | establishes a monetary value for an ecosystem service | |
| 410070380 | external costs | effect of a business process not included in the usual calculations of profit and loss | |
| 410070381 | costs | include poor health and damages that would have occured without regulations | |
| 410070382 | benefits | improve human health | |
| 410070383 | shadow pricing | assesses what people might pay for a particular benefit ex. houses next to airports have lower values | |
| 410070384 | ecology | study of all processes influencing the distribution and abundance of organisms | |
| 410070385 | species | different kinds of living things | |
| 410070386 | population | number of individuals that make up the interbreeding group ina certain area | |
| 410070387 | biotic community | the grouping of population in a natural area | |
| 410070388 | ecosystem | interactive complec of communities and the abiotic environment affecting them within an area | |
| 410070389 | ecotone | a transitional region between ecosystems | |
| 410070390 | landscape | a cluster of interacting ecosystems | |
| 410070391 | biome | a large area of earth with the same climate and similar vegetation | |
| 410070392 | biosphere | one huge system formed by all living things | |
| 410070393 | condition | factor that varies in space and time but is not used up | |
| 410070394 | resource | any factor consumed by organisms water nutrients light oxygen | |
| 410070395 | factor | can be both condition and resource | |
| 410070396 | range of telerance | entire range allowing any growth | |
| 410070397 | limits of growth | high and low ends of the range of tolerance | |
| 410070398 | zones of stress | btw the optimal range and high and low limit of tolerance | |
| 410070399 | synergistic effects | factors that interact to cause greater effect than expected | |
| 410070400 | habitat | place where species is adapted to live | |
| 410070401 | microhabitiat | puddles rock holes | |
| 410070402 | niche | sum of conditions and resources under which a species can live or what the animal eats where it feeds and lives, how it responds to abiotic factors | |
| 410070403 | matter | anything that occupies space | |
| 410070404 | mass | amount of matter in something | |
| 410070405 | law of conservation of matter | atoms do not change and are not created or destroyed | |
| 410070406 | ion | an atom that has gained or lost an electron | |
| 410070407 | molecule | two or more atoms bonded in a specific way | |
| 410070408 | compound | two or more diff kinds of atoms H2O | |
| 410070409 | atmosphere | layer of gases separating earth from outerspace | |
| 410070410 | six key elements | C H O N P S, Carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and sulfur (S). | |
| 410070411 | organic compounds | chemical compoinds making up tissue of living organisms | |
| 410070412 | inorganic compounds | all things that do not contain carbon atoms, are not living organism nor products of living things | |
| 410070413 | natural organic compounds | makes up living organisms | |
| 410070414 | synthetic organic compounds | human-made | |
| 410070415 | energy | ability to do work | |
| 410070416 | work | force x distance | |
| 410070417 | entropy | measure of the degree of disorder in a system | |
| 410070418 | oxidation | loss of electrons | |
| 410070419 | photosynthesis | 6CO2 + 6H2O -----> C6 H12 O6 = 6O2 | |
| 410070420 | comparing carbon and nitrogen cycles | C is mainly found in the atmosphere directly taken in by plants N is found in air, N & P cdant be taken up directly, are limiting factors |
