Intro to ES
A condition that cannot continue at its current rate.
What is unsustainability?
In the United States, the first modern environmental movement began with this man.
Who is Teddy Rosevelt?
A type of resource that is depleted faster than it is replenish, since it took millions of years to form.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
The organization that is in charge of enforcing laws dealing with the environment?
What is the EPA?
The two categories countries are classified as depending on their economic status.
What is developed and developing?
Area that is shared and not owned.
What is a commons?
The three things that Teddy Rosevelt started in order to prevent resource depletion and prevent tragedy of the commons through unsustainability.
What are National Parks, National Forests, and National Wild Life Refuges?
Coal is an example of this type of resource.
Law that lists species at risk for extinction and plans for their recovery.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
What is ecological footprint?
Actions of people always have unexpected results.
What is the law of unintended consequences?
The type of national preserve that is the most restrictive.
What is a National Park?
Timber is an example of this type of resource.
Law that restricts pollution of surface waters.
What is the Clean Water Act?
Matter does not enter or leave Earth.
What is a closed system?
Author of Tragedy of the Commons.
Who is Hardin?
The idea that protects and promotes human interest or well-being at the expense of all other factors.
What is anthropocentrism?
Copper is an example of this type of resource.
What is a nonrenewable recyclable resource?
Law that regulates the testing and contents of municipal tap water.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
The three perspectives of how we should deal with issues of pollution, resource overconsumption, and loss of biodiversity.
What are the planetary management world view, stewardship world view, and environmental wisdom world view?
Environment science is this, meaning that it incorporates concepts and ideas from multiple fields of study.
The number of categories natural resources are grouped in.
What is four?
Sunlight is an example of this type of resource.
What is an inexhaustible resource?
Law that describes rules for handling toxic and hazardous waste?
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act?
What is the environmental wisdom worldview?