Music
A major scale's sequence of intervals
What is whole step-whole step-half step-whole step-whole step-whole step-half step?
A genre of writing that comments on environmental themes. In particular, the relationships between nature and culture
What is environmental literature?
The term used to describe the use of economic analysis to guide decisions about what should be not what is the case
What is normative economics?
The unit of measure for Ecological footprint
What are hectares of land?
These are the subsystems of Earth
What are the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, and biosphere?
The modern term for scholars who study the music of other cultures
What is ethnomusicologist?
Angel's great-grandmother
Who is Agnes Iron?
The person who came up with Pareto efficiency
Who was Vilfredo Pareto?
This was the year Darwin published "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"
When was 1859?
The International Union of Geological Science recognizes this as the Current Epoch
What is the Holocene?
The system of organizing pitch and harmony
What is Common-practice tonality/common-practice harmony?
The author of Charlotte's web
Who is Elwyn Brooks?
These types of goods will tend to have relatively high elasticities of demand
What are substitutes?
This divides time into various intervals from the formation of the Earth through the present
What is the geological time scale?
Dagomar Degroot has led the push to form and name this field
What is history of climate and society (HCS)?
These are the five movements of the "Grand Canion Suite"
What are Sunrise, Painted Desert, On the Trail, Sunset, and Cloudburst?
The winner of the 2010 Crab Orchard Open Book Prize.
What is Camille T. Dungy's Smith Blue?
The formula for calculating the price elasticity of demand
What is (percentage change in quantity demanded)/(percentage change in price)?
This often paraphrased statement is a poetic way of describing the interconnectedness of systems on Earth.
What does A butterfly stirring the air in Beijing can affect weather patterns in New York a month later mean?
From lowest to highest altitude, this is the 3rd atmospheric zone
What is the mesosphere?
In this ballet score, Philip Glass paid tribute to the Amazon
What is Aguas da Amazonia (Waters of the Amazon)?
The theory that states that the mind is separate from the body and the outside world and capable of thinking about itself and its existence
What is Cartesian dualism?
The proclivity of elected officials to introduce projects that steer money to their communities
What is pork belly politics?
This is when prey density increases, so will predator density.
What is numerical response?
The practice of gathering information from trees
What is dendrochronology?