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| 4731047027 | Affluenza | Is a term used to describe the unattainable addiction to overconsumption and materialism of many other developed countries and the rising middle class and country such as China and India | 0 | |
| 4731047028 | Aldo Leopold | Stated that the role of human species should be to protect nature, not conquer. Through writing became one of the founders of the leaders of conversation and environmental movement of the 20th century. In doing this he layed important groundwork for the field of environmental ethics | 1 | |
| 4731047029 | Anthropogenic | Human activity | 2 | |
| 4731047030 | Biodiversity | Variety of life forms in the places or habitats where they live | 3 | |
| 4731047031 | Common property | Property open to the public such as a public park or a shopping mall | 4 | |
| 4731047032 | Developed countries | With 1.2 billion people they include the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and most European countries. | 5 | |
| 4731047033 | Developing country | Most of them in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Some are middle income, moderately developed countries such as China, India, Brazil, and Mexico and others are low income countries. | 6 | |
| 4731047034 | Early conservation era | (1832-1870), during which the people became alarmed at the scope of resource depletion and degration in the United States. They urged that part of the unspoiled wilderness on public lands owned by jointly by all people be protected as a legal legality to future generations. | 7 | |
| 4731047035 | Ecological footprint | Is the amount of biologically productive land and water needs to supply an area with resources and to absorb the waste and pollution produced by such resources use. | 8 | |
| 4731047036 | Ecology | A biological science that studies the relationships between living organisms and their environment. | 9 | |
| 4731047037 | Economic development | Is the improvement of human living standards by economic growth. | 10 | |
| 4731047038 | Economic growth | Is an increase in the capacity of a country to provide people with goods and services. | 11 | |
| 4731047039 | Environment | Is the sum total of all living and nonliving things that affect any living organism. | 12 | |
| 4731047040 | Environmental degradation | When we exceed a resource is natural replacement rate, the available supply begins to shrink. | 13 | |
| 4731047041 | Free access resources | individuals do not own these resources, and they are available to users at little or no charge. Examples include clean air, the open ocean and it's fish, migratory birds, and gases of the lower atmosphere | 14 | |
| 4731047042 | Globalization | Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. | 15 | |
| 4731064060 | Natural capital | The natural resources in the natural services that keep us another species alive and support our economies. | 16 | |
| 4731064061 | Rule of 70 | The rule of 70 states that in order to estimate the number of years for a variable to double, take the number 70 and divide it by the growth rate of the variable. | 17 | |
| 4731047044 | Sustainability | Or durability, is the ability of earths various systems, including human cultural systems and economies, to survive in adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely. | 18 | |
| 4731047045 | Sustainable yield | The highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply. | 19 | |
| 4731047046 | Tragedy of commons | In 1968, biologist Garrett Hardin called the degration of renewable free access resources the ___________ | 20 | |
| 4731064062 | Nonpoint sources | Sources of pollutants are larger, disbursed, and often difficult to identify. | 21 | |
| 4731064063 | Nonrenewable resources | Exists in a fixed quantity or stock in the earths crust | 22 | |
| 4731064064 | Per capita | for each person; in relation to people taken individually. | 23 | |
| 4731064065 | Perpetual resources | on a human time scale it is renewed continuously | 24 | |
| 4731064066 | Point sources | Pollutants are single identifiable sources | 25 | |
| 4731064067 | Renewable resources | Can be replenished fairly rapidly through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is replaced. | 26 | |
| 4731064068 | Resource | Is anything obtain from the environment to meet our needs and wants. | 27 |
