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Unit 1 APES
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- 1Three Principles of Sustainability1) Reliance on solar energy
2)Biodiversity
3) Chemical Cycling - 2Reliance on Solar Energywithout the sun, there would be no plants, no animals, and no food.... so no life
- 3Biodiversity-variety of organisms and the natural systems they live in
- allows life to adapt to changing environmental conditions - 4Chemical Cycling-circulation of chemicals in the environment
- how the earth sustains itself - 5How are our ecological footprints affecting earth?- as our ecological footprints grow, we are degrading more and more of earth's natural capital
- 6What does it mean to live sustainably?-living off the earth's natural income without depleting or degrading the natural capital that supplies it
- 7Environment-everything around us
- 8Environmental Science-an interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment
-integrates stuff from natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities - 9Ecology-biological science that studies how organisms interact w/ one another and w? their environment
- 103 Goals of EScience1)learn how nature works
2)understand how we interact w/ the environment
3)fin ways to deal with environmental problems and live more sustainably - 11Ecosystemset of organisms within a defined area that interact with one another and their environment of nonliving matter and energy
- 12Environmentalism-social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life support system for all forms of life
- 13Natural Resources-materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans
- 14Natural CapitalNatural Resources + Natural Services
- 15Natural Services-processes in nature (purification of water and air.. renewal of topsoil)
- 16Sustainable Yield-the highest rate @ which we can use a renewable resource indefinitely without reducing its available supply
- 17Nonrenewable Resource-resources that exist in fixed quantities
- 18Renewable Resource-resource that takes anywhere from a couple of days to a couple hundred years to be replenished through natural processes
- 19Point Sources-single, identifiable sources
- 20Non-point Sources-dispersed and often difficult to identify
- 21Ecological Footprint-basically the amount of resources needed in a specific place to match the standard of living
- 22I= P x A x TImpact= Population x Affluence x Technology
- 23Per Capita Ecological Footprintecological footprint of an individual in a given country
- 24Agricultural Revolution10,000-12,000 years ago
-humans learned how to grow and breed plants and animals for food/clothing/other purposes - 25Industrial-Medical Revolution275 years ago
-when ppl invented machines for large scale production in factories... medical advances - 26Industrialization-Globalization Revolution50 years ago
-ppl developed new technologies for gaining rapid access to much more information - 27Malnutrition-caused by a lack of proteins and other nutrients needed for good health
- 28Environmental Worldview-your set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what your role in it should be
- 29Environmental Ethics- beliefs about what is right and wrong regarding to how we treat the environment
- 30Planetary Management Worldview-humans are in charge of nature
-nature exists to meet our needs
-we should manage resources for our benefit - 31Stewardship Worldview-can and should manage resources for our benefit
-we have an ethical responsibility to be stewards - 32Environmental Wisdom Worldview-we are a part of nature
-nature exists for all species
- learn how life sustains itself
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