Early Years
The study of the interactions between human and the natura environment
What is environmental science
A park that is owned by the federal government that is for everyone's personal enjoyment
What is a National Park?
sunlight
What is an inexhaustible resource?
the contamination of lakes, rivers, and ground water
What is water pollution?
The estimate of the amount of land needed to support their lifestyle.
What is an ecological footprint?
A public area that everyone can go
What is a common?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who is the president who established the National Park System?
coal, oil and natural gas
What are non renewable resources?
a ecologist who wrote a book about toxins placed on farm crops.
Who is Rachel Carson?
law that restricts pollution of surface waters
What is the Clean water act?
Included in the study of environment, it is the long preceipation and temperatures of an area.
What is Climate?
allowed San Francisco to dam up a water source in Yosemite National Park to provide water for its residents.
What was the result of the Hetch Hetchy Debate?
iron, aluminum, paper
What are recyclable resources?
A variety of species found in a particular habitat or ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
law that regulates handling of toxic and hazardous waste.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act?
This term incorporates concepts and ideas from multiple fields of study.
What is interdisciplinary?
The moral relationship that humans have with the environment.
What is Environmental Ethics?
John Muir
Who is the founder of the Sierra Club?
the complete loss of a species of living thing
What is extinction?
law regulates testin of municipal water resources.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
The actions of people and governments always have unxpected effects.
What is the Law of unintended consequences?
A human centered and natured centered philosophy for environmental ethics
What is the Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism ?
resource depletion
What was the progressive era most worried about?
A compound especially dangerous to the environment.
What is hazardous waste?
agency charged with enforcing environmental laws
Who is the Environmental Protection Agency?