Sustainability
What category of natural resource would trees be categorized under?
Renewable
The process of having other scientists review a study's methodology and conclusions before publication.
Peer-review
The number of individuals in a population found within a defined area or volume.
Population density
Access to family planning tends to _________ fertility levels.
Decrease.
Term used to describe when an entity balances its economic, environmental, and social goals.
Tripple bottom line
What principle of sustainability is based on ethics?
Responsibility to future generations
A study that was conducted following the scientific method but has not been evaluated through peer-review is considered _________.
Tentative science
________ are used to describe the relative number of male and female members of different age classes within a population
Age structure diagram (or population pyramid)
Generally speaking, which countries have the highest population growth rates?
Developing countries that have not undergone the demographic transition.
Why are natural resource often undervalued?
Currently, our ecological footprint exceeds our planet's biocapacity. When this occurs, we call it a(n) ______________.
Ecological deficit
Description of what scientists find happening in nature repeatedly in the same way,
without known exception.
Scientific law
A frog, which has a short life span and can produce over 200 offspring a year, is an example of an __-selected species.
r-selected
What is the current population growth rate?
~1.2%
Which economic growth viewpoint believes that there is no substitute for natural capital?
ecological
This worldview believes that species have value regardless of their use to society.
Life-centered
A(n) __________ occurs when the entity funding research has a financial stake in the results.
Conflict of interest
Resource competition is an example of what type of limiting factor?
Density-dependent limiting factor.
How does affluence affect a population's environmental impact?
More affluent countries tend ot have a larger environmental impact due to high resource consumption.
Which economic growth indicator would you use to describe economic development?
Genuine progress indicator (GPI) or green global economy index (GGEI)
Term used to describe the negative ramifications of the increasing isolation from nature in modern society.
Nature deficit disorder.
Science that uses the results from experimental and field studies to address a specific ecological, economic, and/or social issue.
Applied science
In logistic population growth, the population size is limited to the __________.
carrying capacity
If a country has a rapidly declining death rate and high birth rates, it is likely in the _______________ stage of the demographic transition.
Stage 2, industrializing
This regulatory mechanism limits pollution or resource use by granting tradable pollution and resource-use permits.
cap-and-trade