AP Vocab Flashcards

10771956039	Biodiversity	the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.	0
10772025656	Biocapacity	The capacity of a country, a region, or the world, to produce useful biological materials for its human population and to absorb waste materials.	1
10772143653	Biomimicry	learning from ecosystems and adapting their characteristics to human and organizational situations.	2
10772163036	chemical cycling	the use and reuse of chemical elements such as carbon and nitrogen within the ecosystem	3
10772170874	earth-centered environmental worldview	holds that we are part of, and dependent on, nature and that the earth's life-support system exists for all species, not just for us	4
10777781977	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.	5
10777783553	Ecology	Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment	6
10777784628	Ecosystem	A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.	7
10777786477	ecosystem services	the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced	8
10777787737	environment	every non-genetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us	9
10777788485	environmental degradation	damage to or destruction of the natural environment. When such damage occurs, habitats are destroyed, biodiversity is lost, or natural resources are used up	10
10777792292	environmental ethics	the application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment	11
10777794883	Environmental Science	The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature	12
10777799288	environmental worldview	A worldview that encompasses how people think the world works, how they view their role in it, and what they believe to be proper behavior regarding the environment.	13
10777802466	Environmentalism	A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life support systems for us and other species.	14
10777815185	environmentally sustainable society	Society that meets the current and future needs of its people for basic resources in a just and equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations of humans and other species from meeting their basic needs.	15
10777820867	Exhaustible Resources	A natural resource that cannot be increased by the natural forces of the environment.Ex:petroleum, coal, and natural gas	16
10777835547	exponential growth		17
10777837971	Full-cost pricing		18
10777840355	human-centered environmental worldview	sees the natural world primarily as a support system for human life	19
10777842215	inexhaustible resource	natural resource that will not run out, no matter how much of it people use	20
10777843114	less developed countries	countries at a relatively low level of economic development	21
10777902071	life-centered environmental worldview	all species have value as participating members of the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to humans	22
10777903190	More Developed Country		23
10777905536	natural capital	Natural resources and natural services that keep us and other species alive and support our economies.	24
10777907338	natural capital degradation	occurs when human activities use renewable resources faster than they can be replenished	25
10777909233	natural income	Renewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil provided by natural capital.	26
10777909234	natural resources	Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain	27
10777911658	nonrenewable resources	a resource that cannot be replaced	28
10777916048	nutrient cycling	The circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment (mostly from soil and water) through organisms and back to the environment.	29
10777916888	per capita ecological footprint	the average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area	30
10777917534	poverty	Inability to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter.	31
10777918577	renewable resource	A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed	32
10777918578	resource	A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.	33
10777920880	scientific principles of sustainability	dependence on solar energy, biodiversity, chemical cycling	34
10777923812	solar energy	energy from the sun	35
10777925019	Sustainability	The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained	36
10777926376	revoultion	earth's year round orbit around the sun	37
10777931477	sustainable yield	Highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply	38