It originally meant "wild or savage", and was established as something that must be tamed during the conquest of the American frontier.
What is wilderness
100
That which aims to pass on to future generations the best part of the nonhuman world.
What is the conservation ethic
100
Fear of open places or crowds.
What is agoraphobia
100
Open grassland.
What is a savannah.
200
Why should we preserve the biosphere?
What is question at issue
200
Humanity originated in the transitional savannahs and forests of Africa.
What is the savannah hypothesis
200
The innate tendency to focus upon life and lifelike forms, and in some instances to affiliate with them emotionally.
What is biophilia
200
Fear of spiders
What is arachnophobia
200
Forest categorized by frequent precipitation.
What is a rainforest?
300
If the span of humanity's existence was compressed into seventy years, we would have moved into villages and started up agriculture only during the last 120 days.
What is information
300
Pleasurable sensations we get from the particular stimuli to which our brains are inherently adapted.
What are aesthetics
300
At one end of the scale are mild distaste and feelings of apprehension. At the other end are full-blown clinical phobias.
What is biophobia
300
Scientists found that when these were flashed at patients they still exhibited adverse reactions even though they were very brief.
What are subliminal images.
300
A type of forest frequently found in North America.
What is a hardwood forest
400
Nature has rights.
What is an assumption
400
Anthropocentrism, pathocentrism, and biocentrism
What are the three types of altruism
400
Psychologists who study mental development say that we are hereditarily prepared to learn certain behaviors--the majority of humans enjoy learning the lyrics of a song as opposed to calculus, for example.
What is genetically prepared learning
400
The fear of snakes.
What is ophidiophobia
400
An environment characterized by infrequent precipitation.
What is a desert.
500
If we lose the natural world we will surely lose a vital part of our humanity.
What is conclusion
500
The total collection of organisms of a geographic region.
What are biotas
500
Miniature samples of natural habitat, such as a single natural pond or patch of forest.
What is a micro reserve
500
Fear of closed spaces.
What is claustrophobia.
500
The type of environment in which most of humanity lives today.