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| A celebration and unification of people to celebrate the world we live in and to acknowledge what is going on throughout the world environmentally |
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| What was the original purpose of Earth Day? |
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Habitat destruction
Over-harvesting
Pollution |
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| What are three causes for animal and plant species disappearing? |
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| Has extinction increased or decreased the past 100 years? |
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Human lives are being affected as pollution kills millions of people
Carbon dioxide levels are up 30%
Earth's average temperature is up 1 degree Celsius |
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| What are some typical issues addressed on Earth Day |
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Humans continue burning fossil fuels
Solar radiation rises carbon dioxide emissions |
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| Why is the Earth's average temperature up one degree Celsius? |
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| How much has the human population grown in the past seventy-five years? |
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| The earth is a living, breathing thing that swings like a --. |
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| How much has human consumption increased in the past seventy-five years? |
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| Just because something occurs naturally does not necessarily mean that it is --. |
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| If a natural thing leads to the planet's destruction or to the extinction of a species, then that natural process should be stopped or altered. |
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| Explain why not all natural things are normal. |
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| If you limit the recombination of DNA via birth control, then you limit human diversity. Human life we prevent from existing could provide more environmental solutions |
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| How does birth control play a role in the environment? |
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National laws and treaties
Efforts battling habitat loss are up
New technologies improving air and water quality are up
The human population growth rate is down forty percent |
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| What are some of the signs of hope for our environmental future? |
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| True or false: more people tend to experience asthma in more populated areas |
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| -- studies all aspects of the environment. |
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| -- is part of environmental science that studies abundance and distribution of organisms and is a part of environmental science |
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| True or false: resources that were endless 150 years ago are now limited |
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Forestry was replanted
Fisheries had catching limits and lakes were stocked |
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| How has new knowledge led to better management of our resources? |
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Mud slides
Erosion
Extinction of animal and plant populations |
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| What does deforestation lead to? |
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| -- are very strict in protecting natural resources. For example, a -- may even oppose building roads to explore a forest because that would involve killing part of the forest. A -- would rather view the forest from afar rather than driving through it. |
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| A -- supports effectively using land to benefit the land and oneself. |
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| -- maintaining the needs of the present in an equitable and fair fashion without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
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| Environments are constantly evolving |
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| How is the world changing? |
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| Technology changes our needs for ecosystems service |
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| Human impacts alter the environment |
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| How are we changing the world? |
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| -- consist of all the organisms and their physical and chemical environments and are integrated systems of living and nonliving parts and processes. |
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| -- organisms include plants, animals, and bacteria. |
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| -- and -- must flow in and out of an ecosystem. |
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| -- includes the intake of sunlight, carbon, nitrogen, and water |
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| -- includes the output of heat and materials such as carbon, nitrogen, and water |
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| Ecosystems are described at --. |
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Provisioning services
Regulating services
Cultural services
Supporting services |
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| What types of services do ecosystems provide humans? |
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| True or false: change drives (man-made or natural) occur, benefiting ecosystems. Ecosystem services benefit human well-being. |
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| -- services supply us with resources such as food, water, and air. Humans are notable for our ability to modify and simplify ecosystems in order to increase -- services. |
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| -- services include spiritual and recreational activities and rituals |
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| -- services at as basic ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycles and soil formation |
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| True or false: ecosystem processes are self-regulated |
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| True or false: ecosystem change is essential and inevitable. Ecosystems must change in order to adapt. |
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| Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only changed. All energy must go somewhere. |
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| What is the law of energy? |
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| Is it possible for surrounding ecosystems to affect other ecosystems? |
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| -- feedback is when a system reverses directional change |
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| -- feedback brings forth change that results in new life and includes things such as deforestation leading to erosion |
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Responding to external and internal actions
Responding to season changes
Responding to disturbances such as storms, floods, and fires |
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| How are ecosystems constantly changing |
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| The well-being of present and future humans is dependent on acting --. |
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| Sustainable actions must conform to the law of -- and -- conservation. |
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| Something is considered -- if the amount of the resource in an ecosystem declines with any level of use. |
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| Can environmental boundaries be arbitrary (state lines)? |
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We must not ignore change or interfere with the capacity to change
We must avoid changing the tempo of natural change
We should do our best to copy nature
We should look for thresholds of change |
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| In what ways should we embrace nature? |
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| What are reasons of uncertainty when it comes to environment? |
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| A hypothesis is -- ; it could be proven true. However, it is not guaranteed to be true. |
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| -- recognizes the connections of parts in a system and focuses mostly on how a system functions |
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Make observations
Ask a question
Do background research
Construct hypothesis
Test with an experiment
Analyze results and draw a conclusion
If a hypothesis is true, then report the results
If the hypothesis is false, then reanalyze observations, hypothesis, experiment, and results
Have someone else review your work |
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| What are the steps to the scientific method? |
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| What does sustainability science study? |
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| -- has made incentives for environmental friendliness difficult to see |
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| The -- provides $250,000 per year for campus projects, funded by student fees of $5.00 per student per semester. |
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| -- drains Yosemite National Park and the surrounding area and provides water for San Francisco |
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| The great earthquake of 1906 in Hetch Hetchy Valley led to a great fire that could not be put out because of a poor -- supply |
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| -- is a common religious feature for indigenous people which involves believing that living and nonliving things have souls |
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| -- of plants and animals involves the human alteration of the ecosystem |
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| Monotheism rose during the -- development |
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| New technology, new scientific understanding, and new ideas |
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| What did the enlightenment and the industrial revolution lead to? |
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| What type of new technology did we get from the enlightenment and industrial revolution? |
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| Evolution, botany, zoology, and the understanding of environmental connections |
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| What new scientific understandings did the enlightenment and the industrial revolution lead to? |
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| Transcendentalism and the modern environmental movement |
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| What new ideas resulted from the enlightenment and industrial revolution? |
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| The enlightenment and industrial revolution brought new pressures on the -- as railroads were built, coal was being burned, steel was being made, and factories opened |
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| -- believe that parks and public land should be used to preserve wild nature in its pristine state in a hands-off approach |
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| -- believe that land and resources should be used and managed sustainably to provide the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people |
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| In the -- era, environmental trends, debates, global politics, and warnings dominate the media |
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| -- is the belief that what you are doing is the right thing if it is motivated by virtues such as kindness, loyalty, justice, etc. |
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| -- emphasizes the importance of the outcome, featuring benefit vs. harm |
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| -- is a form of consequence-based ethics in which the focus emphasizes the greatest good for most people |
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| -- is based on a set of rules or laws, such as lying is always wrong |
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| -- drains Yosemite National Park and the surrounding area and provides water for San Francisco |
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| The great earthquake of 1906 in Hetch Hetchy Valley led to a great fire that could not be put out because of a poor -- supply |
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