_______________is the way someone views the world and their place in it.
What is worldview?
100
____________is a formal plan to guide decision making.
What is policy?
100
Principles or standards that an individual considers to be important
What are values?
100
materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
What are natural resources?
100
Information gathered through scientific inquiry is objective. True or False?
What is True?
200
worldview that considers life and all species
What is biocentrism?
200
____________________is a federal agency in the U.S. charged with enforcing legislation to protect the environment.
What is Environmental protection agency, EPA?
200
a conceptual model that provides a systematic process for decision making
What is a decision making model?
200
3 types of ecosystem services
What are provisioning, regulating, and cultural?
200
An _______________________ compares a group containing a specific variable with a “control group” without the variable.
What is an observational study?
300
Name 2 factors the can influence someone's worldview
What is age, gender, religion, politics, etc...
300
is an official report describing the environmental costs and benefits of a proposed project.
What is Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
300
Name 3 values that affect environmental decision making
What are asthetic, economic, environmental, educational, ethical, health, Recreational, Scientific, social/ cultural?
300
Ecosystems can provide a spectrum of leisure opportunities for such activities as tourism, sports, hunting, fishing and other outdoor pursuits.
What is a cultural service?
300
is the ethical principle that all people, regardless of income, race, nationality, etc. have a right to be protected from environmental dangers.
What is environmental justice?
400
worldview that considers questions based on it's human impact
What is anthropocentrism?
400
Give an example of an environmental Policy
answers will vary
400
Name the 2 step where you consider the positives and negative aspects of a decision
What is Consider the values and Explore the consequences?
400
The role of ecosystems in maintaining normal situations (e.g. buffering against extreme natural events such as droughts, floods, storms, tsunamis), natural irrigation and drainage (e.g. watertable regulation) that are important to the provision of safety to human life, structures and other assets.
What is regulating service?
500
Worldview that values whole ecosystems and protecting all it's parts