Environmental Values
Believing technology can solve all problems.
What is technocentric?
The spill of mercury in the waters of this namesake Bay cause tremors and dancing cat fever.
What is Minamata?
The amount of biomass an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
The point of plants in the food chain.
What is the first trophic level?
This process drives evolutionary change and requires variation, overproduction and competition which affects survival rates.
What is natural selection?
The belief that Humanity is most important.
What is anthropocentric?
The most deadly chemical factory explosion in India.
What is Bhopal?
the position a species occupies in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
What is the food web?
This quantitative index uses richness and evenness to provide a measure of species diversity.
What is Simpson’s reciprocal index?
A sustainability indicator that calculates the amount of greenhouse gases produced by an individual, society, or activity.
What is a carbon footprint?
The meltdown at this location has been sealed off with large concrete dome.
What is Chernobyl?
The organic components of an ecosystem.
What is the biotic factors?
The conversion of ATP into energy.
What is respiration?
This global database assesses and publicizes the vulnerability of species based on several factors.
What is the IUCN Red List?
This ecological model describes nine global processes and systems that have regulated the Earth's stability in the Holocene epoch.
What is the Planetary Boundaries model?
A commitment to reduce greenhouse gasses in 1997.
What is the Kyoto protocol?
When two species support each other.
What is mutualistic?
The curve that contains a sudden correction.
What is the J-Curve?
A conservation strategy involves protecting species by managing and conserving their natural environment.
What are in situ conservation strategies?
A regenerative and distributive economy in order to meet the needs of all people within the means of the planet.
What is the Doughnut Economics model?
The most recent climate change agreement, named for a European capital.
What is the Paris Agreement?
That which inhibits population growth.
What is limiting factors?
The buildup of non-dedegradable pollutants.
What is bioaccumulation.
The ecological restoration method aims to regenerate natural processes in ecosystems, triggering positive feedback loops that enhance biodiversity and restore equilibrium.
What is rewilding?