AP Environmental Chapter 1 Flashcards

4825579645	Environment	Everything around us and how it influences us.	0
4825579646	Environmental Science	How human and natures systems interact	1
4825593309	System	Anything that interacts/influences something else by exchanging energy and materials (can be different sizes)	2
4825596365	Ecosystem	A certain location on Earth with living and non living interacting components	3
4825601347	Biotic	Living components of an ecosystem	4
4825602660	Abiotic	Non living components of an ecosystem	5
4825604206	Environmentalist	A person who tries to protect the environment and raise awareness (NOT and environmental scientist)	6
4825608344	Environmental Studies	Environmental sciences combined with humanities (law, literature, politics, economics and ethics)	7
4825613752	Ecosystem Services	How things people need from nature are produced	8
4825616626	Environmental Indicators	Show current state of the ecosystem	9
4825618306	Sustainability	Using Earth's resources in a way that doesn't harm next generations	10
4825622366	Biodiversity	Diversity of life forms in an environment	11
4825623993	Genetic Diversity	Genetic variation of individuals in a population	12
4825626314	Species Diversity	Number of different species in a region or habitat	13
4825628546	Species	A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in it's morphology (body form and structure), behavior or biochemical properties	14
4825633876	Speciation	Evolution of a new species	15
4825636277	Background Extinction Rate	Average rate a species is expected to go extinct	16
4825638002	Ecosystem Diversity	Number of different ecosystems or habitats in a certain regioin	17
4825640316	Hectacres	100 meters x 100 meters or 2.47 acres	18
4825642243	Greenhouse Gases	Heat trapping gases in the Earth's atmosphere Most important: CO2	19
4825648045	Anthropogenic	Caused/Derived by human activites	20
4825651574	Population Stabilization	6.8-10.5 Billion by 2100	21
4825652985	Development	Improvement in human well being through economic advancement	22
4825656437	Five Global Environment Indicators	1. Biological Diversity 2. Food Production 3. Surface Temp. and CO2 4. Human Population 5. Resource Depletion	23
4825661335	Sustainable Living	1. Environmental systems must not be damaged beyond recovery 2. Renewable resources must not be depleted faster than the regenerate 3. Non renewable resources must be used sparingly	24
4825669738	Sustainable Development	Development that balances human well being, economic demands and resource managment	25
4825673107	Biophilia	Love of life (a need)	26
4825674476	Ecological Footprint	How much a person consumes in land area	27
4825677050	Scientific Method	A way to study the natural world methodically	28
4825679299	Hypothesis	A testable educated guess about how something works	29
4825681386	Null Hypothesis	A hypothesis that can be proved incorrect (sometimes easier)	30
4825683855	Replication	Several sets of measurement for the same experiment	31
4825685453	Sample Size	Number of times a measurement is replicated (sometimes referred to as n)	32
4825696903	Accuracy	How close a value is to the true value	33
4825698760	Precision	How close the repeated values are	34
4825699932	Uncertainty	How much a measured/calculated value varies from the true value	35
4825704667	Inductive Reasoning	Making general statements from facts or examples	36
4825706138	Deductive Reasoning	Applying a general statement to specific facts or situations. Not always true	37
4825709167	Critical Thinking	Looking at all sources questioniably	38
4825711517	Theory	When a hypothesis is confirmed multiple times and the idea is widely accepted it becomes a ____________	39
4825716111	Natural Law	A theory with no exceptions that was proven after many, many tests	40
4825719771	Natural Experiment	When a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem	41
4825722154	Environmental Justice	Social movement to enforce environmental laws equally despite other factors (wealth etc)	42