Understanding our environment
The study of the environment that includes the Physical, Biological, and social sciences
What is Environmental Science?
Any natural material that is used by humans
What is Natural resources?
The practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for everything we need
What is Agriculture?
The ecologist who argued that the main difficulty in solving Environmental problem
What is Garrett Hardin?
The balances the cost of the action against the benefits one expects from it.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
Have higher incomes and Slower population growth
What is Developed countries?
The study of how living things interacting with each other and with their nonliving environment
What is ecology
An undesired change in air, water, or soil
What is Pollution?
The change had such a dramatic impact on human societies and their environment
What is Agricultural Revolution?
A law of economics that states as the demand for a good or service increase
What is law of supply and demand?
A tool that helps us create cost effective ways to protect our health and environment
What is Risk Assessment?
have lower average incomes, simple agriculture based communities
What is developing countries?
the study of matter and energy
What is Physics?
Refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area
What is biodiversity?
The ________ technique was onw of the earliest ways that land was converted to farmland.
What is Slash-and-burn?
Commons were eventually replaced by ________ owned by individuals
What is closed fields?
one basic rule of economics
what is The loss of supply and demand?
Millions are people are starving in these countries.
what is Developing Countries?
The study of living things
What is biology?
Can be broken down by natural processes
What is Biodegradable Pollutants?
Groups that began to collect seeds of the plants they gathered
What is mini hunter-gathers?
Earth's Natural resources are
What is Modern Commons?
Name a Developed country
United states, Canada, Japan, and the countries of western Europe
Are calculations that show the productive area of earth needed to support one person in a particular country
What is ecological footprint?
The study of chemical and their interactions
What is Chemistry?
Cannot be broken down by natural processes
What is Nonbiodegradable Pollutants?
What were grassland, forest, and wetlands replaced with
What is farmlands?
when the short term interests of the individual and the long term welfare of society
What is Tragedy of the commons?
Economic forces influence how we use resources
(True or False)
True
The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive
What is Sustainability?