What is Environmental Science?
The study of ecology + how humans affect the environment.
What is Environmental Science?
Resources that can be replenished
What are Renewable resources?
When humans began to settle, farm, and live longer.
What is the agricultural revolution?
A logical way of studying the natural world.
What is Science?
The study of moral principles.
What is Ethics?
The purly scientific study of nature.
What is Ecology?
Resources that take a very long time to be replenished (if at all).
What are Nonrenewable resources ?
Commercial fishing, aquifer depleation, distruction of common land.
What are situations that show the Tragedy of the Commons?
A process involves asking questions, making observations, and gathering data.
What is the Scientific method?
An ethical world view that values all living things.
What is Biocentrism?
The natural world, including all living and nonliving things.
What is the Environment.
Solar, wind, plants, water
What are renewable resources?
The demand of resources made by one person or group. The large use of fossil fules can increase it.
What is Ecological footprint?
Information gathered during an experiment.
What is data?
Ethics that believe human welfare is most important.
What is anthropocentrism?
A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world.
What is the environmentalism or environmental activism?
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Minerals
What are nonrenewable natural resources?
Describes the overuse of shared resources that will run out or become depleted.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Data using numbers and statistics to answer how many and how often.
What is quantitative data?
The ethical view of valuing the community over individual living things.
What is ecocentrism or an ecocentric environmnetal view?
Social movement advocating for the protection of nature.
What is environmental activism.
A natural resource that is used at the same rate that it is replenished. (Not using resources faster than they can be replaced, replenished, or regenerated by nature.)
What are sustainable resources?
The major turning point when humans shifted from using hand tools and muscle power to using machines and fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas) to make goods.
What is the industrial revolution?
The process of peers checking for flaws or inacurate conclusions and sharing the information.
What is the peer review process?
Rules set by governments to control pollution, protect natural resources, and safeguard human health. The wetlands near your school absorb water to prevent the school parking lot from flooding every time it rains.
What are regulations?