APES Flashcards

10559525734	Resource	A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use	0
10559526977	Point Source Pollution	pollution that comes from a specific site	1
10559529398	Non-point Source Pollution	pollution that does not have a specific point of release	2
10569681200	Ecology	Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment	3
10569700265	Biodiversity	the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem	4
10569701413	Ecosystem	A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment	5
10616494457	Ecological Footprint	the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources	6
10616496138	Affluence	wealth; richness	7
10642862689	Tragedy of the Commons	a parable that illustrates why common resources are used more than is desirable from the standpoint of society as a whole	8
10642868188	Natural Income	Renewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil provided by natural capital	9
10642871943	Exponential Growth	Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate	10
10732150464	1st Law of Thermodynamics	Energy cannot be created or destroyed	11
10732150465	2nd Law of Thermodynamics	Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe	12
10732150466	Negative Feedback Loop	A feedback loop that causes a system to change in the opposite direction from which it is moving	13
10732150467	Positive Feedback Loop	Causes a system to change further in the same direction	14