Vocabulary
Solar energy is an example of this.
inexhaustible
key component of environmental science, branch of biology
ecology
true or false: everyone has the same size ecological footprint
false
how many people can the earth support indefinitely?
no one knows
If you play a sport, what time do you need to be in school to practice or play in a game?
9am
when a quantity increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time.
exponential growth
How do countries differ in their economic development and resource use
more-developed and less-developed
Renewable or nonrenewable:
Plastic, Trees, Water
nonrenewable, renewable, renewable
True or False: Americans consume 30 times the amount of resources that the average Indian consumes and 100 times the amount consumed by the average person in the world's poorest countries.
True
What time does mod 9 start?
1:50
The ability of an area's ecosystems to regenerate the renewable resources used by a population, region, country or the world, and to absorb the resulting wastes and pollution.
biocapacity or biological capacity
What is one additional social principle of sustainability
full cost pricing, win win solution, responsibility to future generation
an average ecological footprint of an individual in a given population or defined area
per capita ecological footpring
What are two basic causes of environmental problems?
population growth
wasteful resource use
ommission of costs
increased isolation from nature
competing environmental worldviews
What year did the school open?
1964
highest rate at which people can use a renewable resource indefinitely without reducing its available supply.
Maximum Sustainable Yield
What are the three scientific principles of sustainability.
solar energy, biodiversity and chemical cycling
individuals with access to a public resource act in their own interest and deplete the resource
tragedy of the commons
Your set of assumptions and values concerning how the natural word works and how you think you should interact with the environment.
Environmental Worldview
Name 3 new teachers at JC
answers may vary
people waste, deplete, and degrade much of the earth's life-sustaining natural capital
environmental degradation or natural capital degradation
Natural resources can be divided into three categories. What are they?
inexhaustible, renewable, nonrenewable
What is the IPAT equation?
impact=population x affluence x technology
Name 3 major environmental problems
climate change
loss of speices and habitats
ocean acidification
diminishing access to freshwater
resource waste
hazardous pollutants
What is the full mailing address of the school?
703 E. Churchville Road, Bel Air, MD 21014