The Environment and You
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The study of the impact of humans on the environment.
What is Environmental Science?
100
The people whose lives were changed forever because of the Agricultural Revolution; their populations increased, their cultures and religions developed, and they became stationary.
What are hunter-gatherers?
100
The relative arrangement of the members of a statistical population with regard to a mean.
What is a distribution?
100
As the demand for something in limited supply increases, its cost will also increase.
What is the Law of Supply and Demand?
200
The study of how living things interact with each other and their non-living environment; includes many studies such as: biology, earth science, physics, chemistry, and the social sciences.
What is ecology?
200
The event that took place about 10,000 years ago and led to the development of artificially selected food sources.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
200
The chance that an outcome will be undesired.
What is risk?
200
The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
What is Sustainability?
300
The three main environmental problems we face today.
What are pollution, resource depletion, and loss of biodiversity?
300
The event that took place in the mid 1700's that created most of the environmental issues that we struggle with today.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The relationship between two variables when one variable increases and the other also increases or in which they both decrease.
What is a positive correlation?
300
When humans use a renewable resource faster than it is able to be replaced by a natural process.
What is renewable resource depletion?
400
The conflict between the short-term interests of individuals and the long-term welfare of society.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
400
The energy source that replaced man-power during the Industrial Revolution.
What are fossil fuels?
400
The type of tool that would be used to visualize the process of photosynthesis.
What is a conceptual model?
400
A principal or standard that is found to be important and is used in the second step of the decision-making model.
What is a value?
500
This represents the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a specific country; it is dependent upon the land used for crops, grazing, forest products, housing, fishing grounds, and the area of forest needed to absorb the air pollution.
What is your Ecological Footprint?
500
Something that happened as a result of the human quality of life increasing because of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
What is human population growth?
500
What someone would use if they were taking a road trip across the US.
What is a graphical model?
500
The way to change the negative correlation between the health of the environment and the percentage of economic growth.
What is investing in green technology fields?
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