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Environmental Studies 195 with James Rotenburg at University of North Carolina-Wilmington

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By: Jessie Schultz
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Environment
Created: 2010-02-15
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What are 7 environmental problems we face today?

overpopulation, malnutrition, disease, water shortages, biodiversity loss, poverty, climate change

What is people overpopulation?

People overpopulation is when the environment is worsening bc of the amt of ppl, even if each person consumes very little

What is consumption overpopulation?

Consumption overpopulation results from the over-consumpuous lifestyles of ppl in highly developed countries

Ecological footprint is....?

an amt. of productive land, fresh water, and ocean required on a continuous basis to supply a person w/ food, wood, energy, water, housing, clothing, transportation, and waste disposal.

What is a renewable resource?

Renewable resource is a resource that can be replenished through natural processes.

A non-renewable resource is ....?

A resource that consists only in a fixed quantity and most of it cannot be replaced once gone.

People in highly developed countries are wasteful and extravagant consumers because their consumption,__________, is encouraged by society and impulse.

Definition of consumption: the human use of materials and energy.

Highly developed countries include:___________.

MDC's=

LDC's=

HDC's= United States, Japan, Canada, and most of Europe.

MDC=Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, and Thailand

LDC=Bangladesh, Mali, Ethiopia, Laos

Definition of poverty:

A condition in which people cannot meet thier basic needs for adequate food, clothing, shelter, education, or health.

What are some aspects of life that are related to the way impoverished ppl live.....?

List 4

Unsanitary water, poor nutrition, lower life expectancy, inadequate healthcare

What is the IPAT model?

I=P*A*T

I=human's environmental impact

P=number of ppl

A=consumption of each person

T=Technologies used to get and consume resources

What is ecology?

branch of biology that studies the interrelationships btwn organisms and their environment

List the main causes of environmental problems....... (5)

Rapid population growth, unsustainable resource use, poverty, poor environmental accting, ecological ignorance

What is sustainability?

Enviro. sustainability?

sustainability implies that humans can manage natural resources indefinitely without the environment going into a decline.

If enviro. susta. is applied there should be plenty of natural resources for current humans and future generations.

What is the "Tragedy of the Commons"?

Who wrote the classic essay?

In medieval Europe there was a commons that everyone brought their animals into to graze. The more animals the less the commons survived.

Garrett Hardin wrote "The Tragedy of the Commons" in 1968

What encompasses the many interconnected issues involving human population, Earth's natural resources, and environmental pollution_____?

Environmental Science

What are the 5 stages in addressing environmental problems?

Scientific assessment of enviro. problems and data for a model, risk analysis of potential effects, public education and involvement, political action, ecaluation to monitor effects of action taken

Steps of the scientific method include:

1) state problem 2) Develop hypothesis 3) Design and perform an experiment to test hypothesis 4) Analyze and interpret data 5) Share the conclusion with others

Begins with specific examples and seeks to draw a conclusion on the basis of those examples. Provides new knowledge but is error prone....

Inductive reasoning

Adds nothing new to knowledge, but makes relationships among data more apparent....

Deductive reasoning

Scientific theory is based on....

repeated validation of experiments and tests that are highly reliable descriptions of what we find occuring in nature.

A factor influencing processes being examined is called a _________.

Variable

When an examined variable is left unaltered it is called a _________.

control group

Describes a phenomenon in nature that we find happening over and over again in the same way....

natural/scientific law

A possible explanation based on data or observation is called _____________.

scientific hypothesis "educated guess"

About this deck

By: Jessie Schultz
Textbook:

Environment
Created: 2010-02-15
Size: 25 flashcards
Views: 23

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