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APES Unit 1 Vocab Questions and
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Environmental Science - answer Interdisciplinary study that uses information and
ideas from the physical sciences (such as biology, chemistry, and geology) with those
from the social sciences and humanities (such as economics, politics, and ethics) to
learn how nature works, how we interact with the environment, and how we can to help
deal with environmental problems.

Ecology - answer Biological science that studies the relationships between living
organisms and their environment; study of the structure and function of nature.

Sustainability - answer Ability of earth's various systems, including human cultural
systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions
indefinitely

Biodegradable Pollutants - answer material that can be broken down into simpler
substances (elements and compounds) by bacteria or other decomposers

Conservation - answer Sensible and careful use of natural resources by humans

Ecosystem - answer One or more communities of different species interacting with
one another and with the chemical and physical factors making up their nonliving
environment.

Environment - answer All external conditions, factors, matter, and energy, living and
nonliving, that affect any living organism or other specified system during its lifetime.

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

Natural Income - answer Renewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil
provided by natural capital.

Natural Resources - answer Materials such as air, water, and soil and energy in
nature that are essential or useful to humans.

Tragedy of the Commons - answer Depletion or degradation of a potentially
renewable resource to which people have free and unmanaged access. An example is
the depletion of commercially desirable fish species in the open ocean beyond areas
controlled by coastal countries.

, Easter Island - answer Highly populated and successful culture until they overused
their limiting factors and cut down their trees to create farmland which collapsed their
civilization

Inductive Reasoning - answer Using specific observations and measurements to
arrive at a general conclusion or hypothesis

Deductive Reasoning - answer Use of logic to arrive at a specific conclusion based
on a generalization or premise

Developed Countries - answer Country that is highly industrialized and has a high
per capita GNP

Developing Countries - answer Country that has low to moderate industrialization
and low to moderate per capita GDP. Most are located in Africa, Asia, and Latin
America

Per Capita Ecological Footprint - answer Amount of biologically productive land and
water needed to supply each person or population with the renewable resources they
use and to absorb or dispose of the wastes from such resource use. It measures the
average environmental impact of individuals or populations in different countries and
areas. Compare ecological footprint.

Perpetual Resource - answer Essentially inexhaustible resource on a human time
scale because it is renewed continuously. Solar energy is an example.

Renewable Resource - answer Resource that can be replenished rapidly (hours to
several decades) through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is
replaced.

Nonrenewable Resource - answer Resource that exists in a fixed amount (stock) in
the earth's crust and has the potential for renewal by geological, physical, and chemical
processes taking place over hundreds of millions to billions of years.

Gross National Product (GNP) - answer The total value of goods and services,
including income received from abroad, produced by the residents of a country within a
specific time period, usually one year.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - answer Annual market value of all goods and
services produced by all firms and organizations, foreign and domestic, operating within
a country

Per capita - answer Annual gross domestic product (GDP) of a country divided by its
total population at mid-year midyear. It gives the average slice of the economic pie per
person. Used to be called per capita GNP.

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