APES Flashcards

7223424258	Biodiversity	the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.	0
7223424259	Biodegradable pollutants	harmful materials that can be broken down by natural processes	1
7223424260	ecological footprint	shows the productive area of earth needed to support one person in a particular country	2
7223424261	ecological tipping point	part of the human-environment system that can lever far-reaching change in the system.	3
7223424262	Ecology	The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment	4
7223424263	Economic Development	an effort to use economic growth to improve living standards	5
7223424264	Economic growth	the ability of the economy to increase the production of goods and services	6
7223424265	Environment	every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us	7
7223424266	Environmental degradation	damage to or destruction of the natural environment	8
7223424267	Environmental Ethics	Human beliefs about what is right or wrong with how we treat the environment.	9
7223424268	Environmental Science	the study of the impact of humans on the environment	10
7223424269	Environmental wisdom worldview	We are part of and dependent on nature and it exists for all species, not just us. Success depends on how well we sustain the earth.	11
7223424270	environmental worldview	humans are the most important species and steward of the earth.	12
7223424271	Environmentalism	an ideology that emphasizes conservation and protection of the environment	13
7223424272	Environmentally sustainable society	protect natural capital and live of the resources and services it provides	14
7223424273	exponential growth	Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate	15
7223424274	Gross Domestic Product (GDP)	the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year	16
7223424275	Input pollution control	Device or process that prevents a potential pollutant from forming or entering the environment or sharply reduces the amount entering the environment	17
7223424276	natural capital	The natural resources of Earth, such as air, water, and minerals.	18
7223424277	natural income	Renewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil provided by natural capital.	19
7223424278	natural resources	raw materials supplied by nature	20
7223424279	natural services	processes in nature which support life and human economies	21
7223424280	nondegradable pollutant	material that is not broken down by natural processes	22
7223424281	Nonpoint sources	A diffuse area that produces pollution	23
7223424282	nutrient cycling	The recycling of nutrients between living organisms and the environment.	24
7223424283	Organisms	Any living thing	25
7223424284	output pollution control	Device or process that removes or reduces the level of a pollutant after it has been produced or has entered the environment	26
7223424285	per capita	by or for each person.	27
7223424286	perpetual resource	has a never-ending supply such as solar energy, tidal energy, and wind energy	28
7223424287	planetary management worldview	believe that humans are the world's most important species and thus should manage Earth's resources for our own benefit	29
7223424288	point sources	A distinct location from which pollution is directly produced.	30
7223424289	Pollution	The contamination of Earth's land, water, or air	31
7223424290	Pollution cleanup	Device or process that removes or reduces the level of a pollutant after it has been produced or has entered the environment	32
7223424291	Pollution prevention	The reduction or elimination of pollutants at the source	33
7223424292	social capital	the economic or productive potential of strong, trusting, and cooperative relationships	34
7223424293	Species	A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.	35
7223424294	Stewardship worldview	we have an ethical responsibility to be caring managers, or stewards of the Earth and its finite resources	36
7223424295	Sustainability	the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely	37
7223424296	sustainable yield	Replacement of renewable resources at the same rate at which they are consumed	38
7223424297	Acidity (pH)	the level of acid in substances such as water, soil, or wine	39
7223424298	atomic number	The number of protons in an atom	40
7223424299	atomic theory	the idea that everything is made of small particles, by Dalton	41
7223424300	Cells	Basic unit of life	42
7223424301	chemical change	A change in which one or more substances combine or break apart to form new substances.	43
7223424302	chemical element	a pure substance that consists entirely of one type of atom	44
7223424303	chemical formula	A combination of symbols that represents the elements in a compound.	45
7223424304	chemical reaction	process that changes, or transforms, one set of chemicals into another set of chemicals	46
7223424305	Chromosome	structure made of DNA and associated proteins on which genes are located	47
7223424306	electromagnetic radiation	The energy transferred through space by electromagnetic waves.	48
7223424307	Elements	Any substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances	49
7223424308	Energy	The ability to do work or cause change	50
7223424309	energy quality	a measure of the capacity of a type of energy to do useful work	51
7223424310	Feedback	results back into system to change rate of that process whether positive or negative	52
7223424311	feedback loop	A circular process in which a system's output serves as input to that same system.	53
7223424312	first law of thermodynamics	energy cannot be created or destroyed	54
7223424314	fossil fuels	Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals.	55
7223424315	frontier science	Preliminary science data, hypotheses, and models that have not been widely been tested and accepted	56
7223424316	Genes	Chemical factors that determine traits	57
7223424317	high-quality energy	Energy that is concentrated and has great ability to person useful work i.e. High temperature and energy in electricity, coal, oil, gas, sunlight, and nuclei of uranium	58
7223424318	high-quality matter	Matter that is concentrated and contains a high concentration of a useful resource.	59
7223424319	Inorganic compounds	Compounds that do not contain carbon	60
7223424320	Inputs	Matter, energy, or information entering a system.	61
7223424321	Ion	An atom or group of atoms that has a positive or negative charge.	62
7223424322	Isotopes	Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons.	63
7223424323	Law of Conservation of Energy	Energy cannot be created or destroyed	64
7223424324	Law of Conservation of Matter	Matter is not created nor destroyed in any chemical or physical change	65
7223424325	low-quality energy	energy that is dispersed and has little ability to do useful work	66
7223424326	low-quality matter	Matter that s dilute or dispersed or contains a low concentration of useful resource	67
7223424327	mass number	the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom	68
7223424328	Matter	Anything that has mass and takes up space	69
7223424329	matter quality	Measure of how useful a matter resource is, based on its availability and concentration.	70
7223424330	Molecule	A group of atoms bonded together	71
7223424331	nuclear change	a change in matter within the nuclei of its atoms: radioactive decay, fission, fusion.	72
7223424332	Nucleus	Center of an atom	73
7223424333	organic compounds	compounds that contain carbon	74
7223424334	pH	Indicates relative acidity or alkalinity of substance in a scale of 0 to 14, neutral point of 7. Acid solutions: lower than 7. Basic or alkaline solutions: greater than 7.	75
7223424335	physical change	A change in a substance that does not involve a change in the identity of the substance	76
7223424336	reliable science	Concepts and ideas that are widely accepted by experts in a particular field of natural or social sciences.	77
7223424337	Science	An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.	78
7223424338	scientific hypothesis	An educated guess that attempts to explain a scientific law or certain scientific observation	79
7223424339	Scientific natural law	Description of what scientists find happening in nature repeatedly in the same way without known exception	80
7223424340	scientific theory	A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results.	81
7223424341	second law of thermodynamics	Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe.	82
7223424342	synergistic interactions	Risks that cause more harm together than expected based on separate individual risks.	83
7223424343	Synergy	the power that results from the combination of two or more forces	84
7223424344	System	an organized group of related parts that interact to form a whole	85
7223424345	Throughputs	Rate or flow of matter, energy, or information through a system.	86
7223424346	tipping point	the point at which a fundamental shift in the behavior of a system occurs	87
7235507130	Flow	involves a mixing of particles within a moving mass	88