This term describe the natural world.
What is the environment.
The measure of the demands by one person or group on global natural resources.
What is ecological footprint?
Sunlight, fresh water, soil.
What is renewable natural resources.
This occurs when a population's birth rate exceeds its death rate, causing the population to increase.
What is population growth?
When a shared resource is unregulated, individuals will consume it a selfish rate.
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
The study of ecology and how humans affect the environment and problems.
What is Environmental science.
North America, Europe, Russia, represent ________.
What are places with large Ecological footprints?
Fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas.
What is nonrenewable natural resources.
A sudden decrease in a population due to disease, natural disasters, or other major events is known by this term.
What is a population decline?
It can lead to the depletion of the common resorce.
What is a tragedy?
Interdisciplinary-involves bio, chem, earth science, economics and political science.
What is Environmental science?
India, Africa, and South America represent ________.
What are places with the smallest ecological footprints?
Resources must be used at a ___________ rate.
What is sustainable.
This S-shaped pattern of population growth occurs when a population grows rapidly and then levels off as it reaches carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?
When individuals use a shared resource for their own benefit without considering the long-term impact, leading to depletion of that resource.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Ecology-purely scientific study of nature.
What Environmental science is not.
North American, Australian and European nations are heavily industrialized. These require more fossil fuels and therefore have a greater footprint.
What are possible explanations for Ecological Footprint?
Solar energy, wind energy, and hydropower are examples of this type of resource that can be replenished naturally over a short period of time.
What are renewable resources?
Using tools in the field to increase crops is part of the _______ Revolution.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Overfishing in international waters is a classic example of this economic and environmental concept.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Environmental activism-social movement advocating for protection of nature.
What Environmental science is not?
An ecological footprint includes ________ and _______ consumed and the ________ needed to _____of the _______produced.
What are materials, resources, and resources, dispose, waste?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of this type of resource that takes millions of years to form and can be used up faster than it is replaced.
What are nonrenewable resources?
Using mobile trucks and trans would be part of the ___________ Revolution.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Commercial fishing, Aquifer depletion for irrigation, and destruction of common land.