APES chapter 1
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| a quantity increases by a fixed % of the whole in a given time | ||
| everything that effects a living organism | ||
| biological science that studies the relationships between living organisms and the environment | ||
| interdisiplinary science that uses concepts such as economics, ecology, bio, chem, politics, and ethics to help | ||
| wealth used to sustain a business and create more wealth | ||
| energy from the sun | ||
| planet's air, water, soil, wildlife, minerals, natural purification, recycling, and pest control processes | ||
| direct sunlight and indirect forms of solar energy: wind power, hydro power, biomass | ||
| satisfies basic needs of people without depleting its natural resources | ||
| use the rule of 70 | ||
| 70/ percentage growth rate = doubling time in years | ||
| an increase in their capacity to provide goods and services for people's final use | ||
| market value in current $ of goods and services produced within or outside a country | ||
| market value in current $ of goods and service in a country | ||
| market value in current $ of goods and services in the world | ||
| GNP/total population | ||
| improvement of living standards by economic growth | ||
| US, CA, Japan, AUS, New Zealand, Europe | ||
| broad process of global social, economic, and environmental change that leads to an increasingly integrated world | ||
| anything an organinsm needs for normal maintinence, growth, and reproduction | ||
| on a human time scale it's continually renewed, expected to last 6 billion years as the sun completes its life cycle | ||
| can be replenished in hours- decades through natural processes | ||
| the highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used identifiably without reducing avaiable supply | ||
| exceed resources' natural replenish rate | ||
| exist in a fixed quanity in the earth's crust | ||
| any hard, usually crystilline material that is formed naturally | ||
| collecting and reprocessing a resource into new products | ||
| using a resource over and over in its same form | ||
| any addition to our air water soil or food that threatens health survival or activities of humans or organisms | ||
| when pollutiants come from identifiable sources | ||
| pollutiants come form dispersed sources | ||
| how people think the world works and what their role should be |