APES Flashcards

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