AP Environmental Science Chap 1 study guide
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[Chapter 1] Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability Living in an Exponential Age - exponential growth: a quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time - continued exponential growth in human activities such as burning fossil fuels (carbon-based fuels such as coal, natural gas, and gasoline) and clearing forests will change the earth?s climate during this century. [1-1] What is and Environmentally Sustainable Society? Environmental Science is a Study of Connections in Nature - environment: everything around us, including all of the living and the non-living things with which we interact. We are part of, and not apart from, the rest of the nature. - environmental science: