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| 4679845362 | Sustainability | the ability to meet humanities current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The 3 components of sustainability are economic, environmental, and societal (culture) |  | 0 |
| 4679852636 | Ecosystem services | The process by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced. Four functions are: Supporting, Provisioning, Regulating, and Cultural |  | 1 |
| 4679862487 | Tragedy of the Commons | 1968 Paper by ecologist GARRETT HARDIN. When no individual has ownership, no one takes responsibility. The rational choice is increased personal consumption. Depletion or degradation of a potentially renewable resource to which people have free and unmanaged access. An example is the depletion of commercially desirable fish species in the open ocean beyond areas controlled by coastal countries. | 2 | |
| 4679886546 | First Law of Thermodynamics | Energy is neither created nor destroyed, but may be converted from one form to another (Law of Conservation of Energy) |  | 3 |
| 4679888096 | 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) | 4 | |
| 4679895135 | Love Canal, N.Y. | Community sat atop a decades old toxic waste dump, citizens had a rising number of health problems(birth defects and cancer) in their community. President Carter declared Love Canal a federal disaster area and moved over 600 remaining families to new locations. | 5 | |
| 4679897699 | Resource Conservation & Recovery Act RCRA | 1976. Amended 1984. Regulates hazardous waste storage and disposal. "Cradle to grave" management. |  | 6 |
| 4679899758 | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act CERCLA | (1980) ―Superfund, designed to identify and clean up abandoned hazardous waste dump sites. Established federal authority for emergency response and clean-up of hazardous substances that have been spilled, improperly disposed, or released into the environment | 7 | |
| 4679904884 | Positive feedback loop | A change in a condition triggers a response that intensifies the changing condition. Example: Warmer earth-->snow melts-->less sunlight is reflected and more is absorbed= warmer Earth | 8 | |
| 4679908010 | Negative feedback loop | A change in condition triggers a response that minimizes or counteracts the changing condition. Example: Warmer Earth-->more ocean evaporation--> more stratus clouds--> less sunlight reaches the ground= cooler Earth | 9 |
