Intro to Environmental
A purely scientific study of the natural environment
What is ecology
The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principals
What is ethics
A type of reasoning that compares new things to the rules of the natural world to make inferences
What is deductive reasoning
Service that includes goods that humans use directly from the ecosystem
What is the provisioning service
This policy is a global agreement that regulates the international transport of endangered species
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or CITES
The study of ecology as well as focusing on how humans affect the environment and ways to address environmental problems
What is environmental science
An ethical world view that places value on human populations and human welfare
What is Anthropocentrism
The variable in an experiment that is measured or observed
What is the dependent variable
Service that provides non-material benefits that people obtain from the ecosystem, such as recreational benefits
What is the cultural service
This global policy that attempts to limit the impact of climate change with a collective effort from developed and underdeveloped nations keeping the rising earth temperatures within 2 degrees Celsius
What is the Paris Agreement
A major event in human history where humans shifted from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to living in communities, raising livestock, and planting crops
What is the Agricultural Revolution
The study of the production and consumption of scarce resources and the way they affect behavior.
What is economics
Statistical calculation used to evaluate how significant our data actually is
What is the standard error of the mean
A wetland is responsible for providing flood control to a near by forest that is a natural habitat for many animals
What is the regulating service
This policy created to provide safer workplaces by preventing injuries, disease, and deaths
What is OSHA
A measure of the demands made by one person or group on global natural resources.
What is an ecological footprint
The number of people willing to purchase or use a resource
What is demand
Explains a phenomenon and is supported by many fields of evidence. A broad explanation that applies to many situations.
What is a theory
A fresh water stream provides fish with natural breeding grounds so that they can reproduce
What is the supporting service
The act that regulates carcinogens that can be found in our food and other products that we use on our skin
What is the Delaney Clause of Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Act
Expresses the idea that when a shared (common) resource is unregulated, individuals will consume it at a selfish rate.
The decision making process utilized when environmentalist are attempting to determine if the price of their solution or resource is worth the actual gain
What is cost-benefits analysis
One of the most important ways scientific community guards against faulty science
What is peer review
What is the regulating service
This act that acts as a superfund to clean up uncontrolled or hazardous sites such as spills or other pollutants released into the environment
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act or CERCLA