Vocabulary
The capacity of the earth’s natural systems and human cultural systems to survive, flourish, and adapt into the very long-term future
What is sustainability?
ecology, biology, geology, chemistry
What are natural sciences?
Name the two sources of pollution?
What is point and nonpoint?
What does the I stand for?
What is environmental impact?
What is your environmental science teacher's name?
Ms. Thomas
Everything around us
What is the environment?
geography, politics, economics
What are social sciences?
What is a point source of pollution?
What is a single, identifiable source?
What does the P stand for?
What is population?
Environmental science is taught in room # ____?
211
interdisciplinary science connecting information and ideas from natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities
What is environmental science?
ethics, philosophy
What are humanities?
What is a nonpoint source of pollution?
What is disbursed and difficult to identify?
What does the A stand for?
What is affluence?
What is the 4th word of the kitten creed?
myself
useful materials and energy in nature
What are natural resources?
Amount of biologically productive land and water needed to provide a person or area with renewable resources, and to recycle wastes and pollution
What is an ecological footprint?
List the 3 Scientific Principles of Sustainability:
What is dependence on solar energy, biodiversity, and chemical cycling?
What does the T stand for?
What is technology?
What year was SULS founded?
1922
wasting, depleting, and degrading the earth’s natural capital
What is environmental degredation?
important nature processes such as renewal of air, water, and soil
What are natural services?
Explain the tragedy of the commons.
Common property and open-access renewable resources are degraded from overuse [answers may vary]
What is the equation for the Environmental Impact Model?
What is I=PxAxT
Finish this statement. We will always pledge allegiance to the ____ and _____.
green and gold