APES-Unit I Sustainability Flashcards

4849000808	Environmental Justice	The equal treatment of all people regardless of social grouping with regard to prevention and relief from environmental and health hazards.	0
4849002248	Internal Costs	Includes manufacturing costs, labor, taxes, utilities, insurance, and rent.	1
4849002249	External Costs	Borne by society and not the manufacturer; the environmental and human health costs paid by the rest of the society	2
4849004148	Tragedy of the Commons	situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources, creating disaster for the entire community	3
4849004149	Ecological Footprint	The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support a person or population.	4
4849014864	GDP	Gross Domestic Product- the total market value of all final goods and services produced annually in an economy	5
4849022965	I=PxAxT	Ecological Footprint Equation I-environmental impact, P-population, A-affluence, T-technology	6
4849051287	non renewable resource	A resource that exists in a fixed amount or is used up more quickly than it can be replaced	7
4849053970	perpetually renewable resource	are constantly replenished resources such as: sun, wind, waves, and geothermal.	8
4849056854	potentially renewable resource	resources are potentially renewable as long as we do not consume more quickly than they can be replenished. Ground water, biomass, soil	9
4849071271	non governmental organization (NGO)	An organization that operates independently of any government body but usually through individual volunteer efforts in private donations	10
4849083492	polar molecule	Molecule with an unequal distribution of charge, resulting in the molecule having a positive end and a negative end	11
4849139067	non polar molecule	Bonds between two identical atoms so the electrons are shard evenly and the molecule is symmetrical	12
4849143121	first law of thermodynamics	Energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed.	13
4849144358	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)	14
4849145687	positive feedback loop	Causes a system to change further in the same direction.; tends to move a system away from its equilibrium state and make it more unstable	15
4849164896	pH scale	measurement system used to indicate the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in solution; ranges from 0 to 14	16