APES Flashcards

4868692589	environmental science	interdisciplinary science	0
4868692590	Natural resources being depleted	farming, fishing, mining, water usage, and consumption of fossil fuels	1
4868692591	Natural resources are not renewable	fossil fuel,gas, oil, coal	2
4868692592	Need to learn sustainability		3
4868694591	what is sustainability and be able to give examples	ex. solar energy, wind energy, green space	4
4868712306	Ecological services	anytime natural things do a service that benefits the earth	5
4868720245	Human population	About 7.5 billion	6
4868720246	Human population	Within 40-50 years another 1 ½ billion will be added	7
4868720247	Human population	The fast Population growth causes a big depletion in resources	8
4868720248	population growth rate	1.2%	9
4868720249	Exponential growth rate		10
4868720250	The world population growth is growing but birth rates slowing	Because people are healthier so they are living longer and birth rates are slowing because of the medicine such as birth control to stop pregnancy.	11
4868722418	Know the difference between TFR and replacement fertility	TFR is the amount of kids a woman has had and replacement fertility is having like 2 kids to keep a stable population	12
4868722419	Human population	World population is closer to 7 billion than 8	13
4868722420	Know about china's one child policy and how it will effect them in the future		14
4868722421	Know the factors that have caused a slower growth in birth rates	family planning Birth control *contraception	15
4868722422	Population is larger in developing countries than developed countries	developing countries are still growing	16
4868724590	Know the AIDS epidemic	is having the greatest impact since the Black Death in the 14th century	17
4868726574	human population	AIDS occurs in developing countries more	18
4868778274	According to demographics AIDS rates are higher in younger males		19
4868786855	Familiar with the top 3 most populous countries on earth	China India United States	20
4868788558	Know what the industrial revolution did to benefit the people going through it, but the long term negatives it had.		21
4868790509	Paradigm shift	we go from an idea that is highly supported and then has a huge shift to change to our views	22
4868795408	Control experiments	observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable	23
4868798363	Natural capital	our accumulation of natural resources	24
4868800946	Thomas Malthus	An Essay on the Principles of Population (1798) Humans will outstrip food supplies War, disease, starvation reduce populations	25
4868805784	Humans will be gone soon because the earth will run out of resources and starve to death.	.	26