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APES Chapter 1 and 2 Questions and Answers Exponential Growth Growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size. Environmental Science An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment of living and nonliving things. Ec...

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APES Chapter 1 and 2 Questions and
Answers
Exponential Growth - answer Growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in
proportion to the growing total number or size.

Environmental Science - answer An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact
with the environment of living and nonliving things.

Ecology - answer Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between
organisms and their environment

Environmentalism - answer A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural
world.

Sustainability - answer A principle of environmental science that demands us to
maintain Earth's systems and its natural resources for the future.

Natural Capital - answer Natural resources and natural services that keep us and
other species alive and support our economies.

Natural Resources - answer Raw materials supplied by nature that come from the
earth, the water, or the air and are used to produce goods.

Natural Services - answer Functions of nature, such as purification of air and water,
which support life and human economies.

Nutrient Cycling - answer The pathway of various nutrient minerals or elements from
the environment through organisms and back to the environment

Solar Capital - answer Energy from the sun

Trade-Offs - answer a balancing of risks and benefits caused from an action

GDP - answer Gross Domestic Product- the total market value of all final goods and
services produced annually in an economy

GDP PPP - answer GDP per capita purchasing power parody the value of all final
goods divided by the average population of a country

Economic Development - answer Improvement of human living standards by
economic growth

, Developed v. Developing Countries - answer ...

Perpetual Resources - answer On a human time scale it is renewed continuously;
ex: the sun

Renewable Resources - answer Resources that can be restored or replenished,
these are resources that are not lost forever once used. Examples include, human
skills, a tennis ball that can be hit time and time again

Nonrenewable Resources - answer A natural resource that is not replaced in a
useful time frame.

Sustainable Yield - answer Highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used
indefinitely without reducing its available supply

Tragedy of the Commons - answer A parable that illustrates why common resources
are used more than is desirable from the standpoint of society as a whole

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - answer The ideal that many materials can be recycled
and reused in order to prevent excess waste. Also, by reducing waste there would be
less pollution.

Ecological Footprint - answer A way of measuring how much of an impact a person
or community has on the earth. Someone who uses more natural resources will have a
bigger footprint than someone who uses less.

Point vs. Non-point sources of pollution - answer Point, from specific location such
as a pipe. Non-point, from over an area such as runoff

Pollution prevention and Cleanup - answer This 1990 law was the first US
environmental law to focus on the reduced generation of pollutants at their point of
origin.

Poverty - answer Occurs when people are unable to fulfill their basic needs for
adequate food, water, shelter, health, and education.

Environmental worldview - answer A set of assumptions and values reflecting how
you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be

Principles of Sustainability - answer Reliance on Solar Energy, Biodiversity, and
Chemical Cycling.

Scientific Method - answer A series of steps followed to solve problems including
collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating
conclusions.

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