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| All external conditions, factors, matter, and energy, living and nonliving, that afffect any living organism or other specified system. |
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| Interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment of living and nonliving things. |
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| Garret Hardin was an American ecologist and philosopher who warned of the dangers of overpopulation. He was responsible for the idea of the Tragedy of the Commons. |
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| Materials such as air, water, and soil and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans. |
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| Variety of different species, genetic variability among individuals within each species, variety of ecosystems, and functions such as energy flow and matter cycling needed for the survival of species and biological communities. |
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| Resource that can be replinished rapidly through natural processes as long as it's not used up faster than it's replinished. |
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| Resource that exists in a fixed amount in the earths crust and has the potential for renewal by geological, physical, and chemical processes taking place over hundreds of millions to billions of years. We are using them faster than they can be replinished. |
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| Social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life support systems for us and other species. |
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| A colorless, transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms. |
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| Introduction to Environmental Science |
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| It is a branch of biology focused on the study of the relationships of the natural world and the relationships between organisms and their environments |
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| The agricultural revolution was a period of time when men made many advancements in the field of farming. There was more efficient means of harvesting, safer food, and more production. |
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| Reverend Thomas Malthus was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. His book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that sooner or later, population growth is checked by famine and disease, what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe. |
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| Easter Island is a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia. It is famous for it's archaeological sites, including nearly 900 monumental statues called moai, which are carved human figures with oversize heads, often resting on massive stone pedestals called ahus. |
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| A non-renewable resource such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. |
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| Amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply a population with the renewable resources it uses and to absorb or dispose of the wastes from such resource use. |
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| Depletion or degradation of a potentially renewable resource to which people have free and unmanaged access. Thought that the innocence of one won't hurt, but if everyone does it it is detrimental. |
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| The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. There were many advancements in production and technology. |
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| Both renewable resources. Are used today as a means of power. |
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