Environmental Problems
Resources that are replaced quickly
What are renewable resources?
What is our foundation for ethics?
The Bible
An observation of an amount, ratio, length, height, mass, etc.
What is a quantitative observation?
This is the practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals for food, goods, and other purposes.
What is agriculture?
Measures the energy released by an earthquake
What is the Richter scale?
*each magnitude represents and 30x increase in energy released
What are the goals of environmental science?
To understand and solve environmental problems
To describe environmental systems and how they work
To predict how systems may change
The conditions in which human needs are met in such a way to survive indefinitely with a similar quality of life
What is sustainability? (Secular)
Only one variable is changed by the researcher
What is a independent variable?
These four issues are distinct to the industrial revolution. (list 2)
Rapid growth of urban areas
More isolated land destroyed for farming
Increased pollution
Energy sources shifted to non-renewable sources
The layer in which the Northern lights occur
What is the ionosphere?
Loss of species in an area
What are extinctions or loss in biodiversity?
How much land/sea is needed to sustain one person in a country
What is an ecological footprint?
The greater the demand for a limited supply, the greater the value.
What is supply and demand?
This issue is distinct to hunter-gatherer societies.
What is overhunting and extinctions?
The view that most of the crust's features are the result of a slow, gradual process.
What is uniformitarianism?
When a large fraction of resources are used up
What is Resource depletion?
Why is it difficult for people to agree on environmental projects?
Different motivations and interests
This method studies the relationship between two events
What is the correlation method?
This environmental issue stems from the development of the agricultural revolution.
destruction of natural habitats for increased farmland
The soft layer of 'plastic rock' that allows tectonic plates to shift.
What is the asthenosphere?
When can biodegradable pollutants become an issue?
When decomposers cannot consume biodegradable pollutants faster than or at the same rate as production of waste.
How could a democratic society influence decision-making processes?
Different values come to an agreement or compromise on a certain project.
What is the final step in the scientific method?
Communicating results
The main arguments for the rise of the 'information revolution'
Rapid spread of information
New environmental concerns such as RF waves
Increased dependence on technology
Etc.
Heat transfer from a warmer to a cooler object
What is conduction?