Define exponential growth.
List two things that increase exponentially.
What is growth in which some quanity increase at a constant rate per unit of time.
What is human populations and environmental problems
100
Depeltion or destruction of a poentially renewable resource taht is used faster than it can be naturally replinished
What is environmental degradation
100
Define resource.
What is anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants
100
List two examples of man made pollutants.
List one example of a natural pollutant.
What is coal burning and car exhuast
What is volcanic eruption.
100
Any addition to air, soil or food that threatens the health or activities of humans and other organisms.
A particular chemical or form of energy that can adversely affect the health, surival, or activities of humands or other organisms.
What is pollution
What is pollutant
200
Interdisciplinary study of the eath, how humans interact with the earth, and environmental problems.
The biological science that studies the relationship between living organisms and the environment.
What is the difference between the two?
What is environmental science.
What is ecology.
What is environmental science focus is on how humans interact with environment. An ecology focus on how other living things interact with the environment.
200
Define potentially renewable resource. List three examples.
What is Natural resources based on sustainable yield.
What is ground water, forest, fertle soil, animals
200
Define prepetual resource and give three examples
What is continously renewed. Examples solar energy, wind, and flowing water
200
Define point source pollution and give an example.
Define nonpoint source pollutions and give an example.
What is single identifiable source. Example smoke stack.
What is disperse and hard to identify. Example is pesticide runoff.
200
List two solutions to pollution.
What is prevention and clean-up
300
Describe developing countries and give three examples.
Describe developed countries and give three examples.
What is countries with low to moderated industrilization and per capital GDP ( Africa, Asia, Latin America)
What is high industrilization and high percapital GDP (U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand)
300
The ability of a system to survive for some speciific time or survive and adapt to environmental change.
The highest rate at which a reneswable resource can be indefinitely used without reducing its available supply is
What is sustainablility
What is sustainable yeild
300
Define renewable resource and give three examples
What is rplenished fairly rapidly through natural processes.
Examples forest, grasslands, fresh water, fresh air, fertle soil.
300
Pollution cleanup and prevention can be encouraged by
What is regulations, taxes, subcides
300
Define tragedy of the Commons.
Give an example of tragedy of the commons.
What is degradation of free acess resources.
What is over fishing the oceans. pollution parks.
400
The improvement of human living standards by economic growth.
The annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organization, foreign and domestic, operating in a country.
What is economic development.
What is Gross domestic product
400
What is a sustainable society?
Working with the earth implies?
What is meets the needs of people without interfering with needs of future generations.
What is sustaining biodiversity, take only what we need, decrease population size, decrease pverty.
400
Define nonrenewable resources and list fsix examples
What is found in fixed quanity in earth crust and takes millions of years to renew geologically.
Examples: coal, oil, gas, iron, copper, aluminum,salt,sand, clay
400
Pollution cleanup can be ineffective because
What is
1. trash is only moved from spot tot stop
2. growing population
3. high consumption
4. hard to clean when disperses
400
List five effects of poverty
What is
1. degradation of forest, grasslands,and soil
2. over population
3. premature death from precentable health problems
4. increased susceptability to infectious disease
5. increased respiratory problems
500
Degradation of free acess resources is.
Define free acess resources.
List three examples of free acess resources
What is Tragedy of the Commons.
What is public or national parks, lakes or rivers, and the ocean and fish in ocean.
What is Resources owned by no one and free to all.
500
List four root causes of unsustainaability.
What is
1. wasting resources,
2. huiman need to dominate nature
3. human greed
4. rapid population graowth
500
How can we extend nonrenewable resources?
Define both ways to extend them.
What is recycle and reuse.
Recycle iscollecting and processing resources to make a new product.
Reuse is usinf an resource over and over in the same form.
500
List three unwanted effects of pollution
What is
1. degrade life support system
2. endanger wildlife, human health and property
3. nuisances like noise and unpleasant smells
500
List five causes of environmental problems
What is
1. population growth
2. wasteful use of resources
3. poverty
4. poor environmental accounting
5. ecological ignorance