APES Flashcards

4748502487	Exponential growth	When a quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time such as 2% per year	0
4748502488	Enviornmental science	Study of how the earth works how we interact with the earth and how to deal with enviornmental problems	1
4748502489	Ecology	A biological science that studies the relationships between living organisms and their enviornment	2
4748502490	Sustainability	Ability of earths various systems including human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing enviormental conditions indefinitley	3
4748502491	Enviornmental sustainable society	Meets the basic resource needs of its people in a just and and equitable manner without degrading the natural capital that supplies these resources	4
4748502492	Developed country	Most are highly industrialized and have a high average per capita GDP (1.2 billion people)	5
4748502493	Developing country	Middle income modertaly developed (5.4 billion people)	6
4748502494	Sustainable yeild	Highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply	7
4748502495	Enviornmental degradation	Whenever we exceed a resources natural replacement rate the available supply begins to shrink	8
4748502496	Common property	Free acess resources	9
4748502497	Tragedy of the commons	The degradation if renewable free acess resources	10
4748502498	Point source pollution	Single indentifiable sources	11
4748502499	Nonpoint source pollution	Larger dispensed and often difficult to identify	12
4748502500	Malnutrition	Lack of protein and other nutrients for good health	13
4748502501	Affluenza	Unstainable addiction to overconsumption and materialism	14
4748502502	Biodiversity	Great variety of genes species ecosystems and ecological process have provided	15
4748502503	Aldo leopold	Believed the role of the human species should be to protect nature not conquer it published sand county almanac	16
4748502504	John muir	Nature preservationist founded the sierra club	17
4748502505	Gifford pinchot	First chief	18
4748502506	Theodore roosevelt	President	19
4748502507	Franklin roosevelt	Created the CCC	20
4748502508	Rachel carson	Published silent spring	21
4748539386	What are developed countries?	U.s, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand	22
4748541776	What are developing countries	China India Brazil Mexico	23