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APES Study Guide Questions and Answers Sustainabiliy The ability of a system to support itself Gaia Hypothesis proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a self-regulating, complex system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on t...

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Sustainabiliy - answer The ability of a system to support itself

Gaia Hypothesis - answer proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic
surroundings on Earth to form a self-regulating, complex system that contributes to
maintaining the conditions for life on the planet.

Spaceship Earth - answer 1968 Picture of Earth from Space

Precautionary Principle - answer The precautionary principle or precautionary
approach states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the
public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or
policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking an action.

Tragedy of the Commons - answer Some shithead is dumping shit into the
environment and screws up everybody else's shit

Preservationalist - answer People who want to protect the environment for its own
sake (not as a resource for humans).

Conservationalist - answer an environmentalist who wanted to meet present
economic needs and conserve natural resources for future generations

Feedback Loop - answer Occurs when an output of matter, energy, or information is
fed back into the system as an input and leads to changes in that system. (Can be
positive or negative)

Perpetual Energy - answer Natural resources such as sunlight and wind that are
widely available and in no danger of being used up.

Non Renewable Energy - answer a source of energy that exsists in limited quantities
and once used, cannot be replaced except over the course of millions of years

Renewable Energy - answer Any source of energy that can be continually produced
and is inexhaustible given current conditions. (Needs effort like trees)

Absolute Energy - answer Anything that provides energy

Relative Scarcity - answer imbalance in the distribution of a resource rather than
insufficiency of the total supply

, High Quality Energy - answer organized and concentrated; can perform useful work
(fossil fuel and nuclear)

Low Quality Energy - answer disorganized, dispersed (heat in ocean or air wind,
solar)

Neo Malthusian View Point - answer Gonna be a giant disaster because we overshot
the carrying capacity

Cornucopia View Point - answer There are plenty of available resources and there is
nothing to worry about

Hard Path - answer refers to use of large centralized power plants; may be coupled
with energy conservation and cogeneration. (Fossil fuels)

Soft Path - answer Energy policy that relies on renewable energy resources and
other sources that are diverse, flexible, and matched to end-use

Biomagnification - answer accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food
chain

Ecological efficiency - answer Ecological efficiency describes the efficiency with
which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next

Primary Succession - answer An ecological succession that begins in an area where
no biotic community previously existed

Secondary Succession - answer Succession following a disturbance that destroys a
community without destroying the soil

Seral Stages - answer The communities in between the pioneer and climax
community during the stages of succession

Inertial Stability - answer -an ecosystem with this has the ability to resist some low
level disturbance

Resilience Stability - answer able to deal with small disturbances, and then return to
how they were before.

Constancy Stability - answer lack of fluctuations in composition or functions in an
ecosystem

Zeroth law of thermodynamics - answer If two systems are in thermal equilibrium
with a third system, they must be in thermal equilibrium with each other. This law helps
define the notion of temperature.

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