Ecosystems & Biodiversity
This biome is characterized by high temperature, high precipitation, and is known for high levels of biodiversity.
What is a tropical rainforest?
The term for when companies falsely advertise products as eco-friendly.
What is greenwashing?
This ethics approach indicates that nature is valuable only for what it provides to humans.
What is anthropocentrism?
Adding a tax to environmentally harmful activities like carbon emissions is an example of this type of solution.
What is a market-based solution/green tax?
The natural phenomenon that traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The total number of different species in a given area refers to this biodiversity measure
What is species richness?
This movement critiques how patriarchal systems impact the environment and women.
What is ecofeminism?
The removal of these renewable energy structures can restore river ecosystems and indigenous cultural practices.
What are hydroelectric dams?
This concept describes the movement of industry to new locations when resources are depleted or labor costs rise.
What is the Spatial Fix?
A system of classification created by society to categorize people based on physical characteristics, ancestry, and culture, primarily used to establish and maintain social hierarchies, power, and privilege.
What is the social construct of race?
An ecosystem service category that includes resources like food, water, and timber.
What are provisioning ecosystem services?
This framework highlights how race, gender, and class overlap to shape privilege and discrimination.
What is intersectionality?
This 19th-century belief justified U.S. expansion across the continent, seeing land as "empty" and ready for settlement.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This economic theory argues that legal agreements can settle environmental disputes between two or more parties without governmental intervention.
What is the Coase Theorem?
The exchange of information, advice, and opinions between experts, officials, and people facing threats to health, safety, or the environment
What is risk communication?
This type of species interaction benefits one species without affecting the other.
What is commensalism?
Unequal exposure to pollution and environmental hazards based on race describes this injustice
What is environmental racism?
The legal agreement that divided land rights between the U.S. and Britain in the Pacific Northwest in 1846.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
One believed that privatization and coercion were the best way to prevent the "Tragedy of the Commons," while the other believed in local institutions for common-pool resources
Who are Garrett Hardin and Elinor Ostrom?
The city and state where a crisis began in April 2014 when the city switched its water source to the without proper corrosion control, exposing thousands of residents to lead and bacteria.
What is Flint, Michigan?
These ecosystems are transition zones between land and water and were previously known as "wastelands"
What are wetlands?
The woman who led the Green Belt Movement, empowering women and promoting reforestation in Kenya.
Who is Wangari Maathai?
This naturalist argued for the preservation of wilderness at Hetch Hetchy for its own sake, not for human use.
Who is John Muir?
This agricultural movement of the mid-20th century increased global food production through the use of pesticides, disease-resistant seeds, and modern irrigation systems.
What was the green revolution?
The evolving, cumulative body of knowledge, practices, and beliefs regarding the relationship of living beings with one another and their environment, passed down by Indigenous and local communities over generations
What is traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)?