Ch. 1

Question 1

Environmental world view

Answer 1

A set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be.

Question 2

Environmental ethics

Answer 2

The study of varying beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment.

Question 3

Human- centered environmental world view

Answer 3

Sees the natural world primarily as a support system for human life.

Question 4

Life-centered environmental world view

Answer 4

All species have value as participating members of the biosphere regardless of their potential or actual use to humans.

Question 5

Earth-centered environmental world view

Answer 5

We are part of and dependent on nature and that the earths life-support system exists for all species.

Question 6

Environmentally sustainable society

Answer 6

One that meets the current and future basic resource needs of its people in a just and equitable manner without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their basic needs.

Question 7

Natural income

Answer 7

The renewable resources.

Question 8

Exponential growth

Answer 8

Quantity of human population increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time.

Question 9

Per capita ecological footprint

Answer 9

The average ecological footprint of an individual in a given county or area.

Question 10

Ecological footprint

Answer 10

The amount of land and was an needed to supply a population or an area with renewable resources.

Question 11

Pollution prevention

Answer 11

Efforts focused on greatly reducing or eliminating the production of pollutions.

Question 12

Poverty

Answer 12

A condition in which people are unable to fulfill their basic needs for adequate food, water, shelter, health care and education.

Question 13

Pollution cleanup

Answer 13

Involves cleaning up or diluting pollutions.

Question 14

Non point sources

Answer 14

Dispersed and often difficult to identify.

Question 15

Point sources

Answer 15

Single identifiable sources.

Question 16

Pollution

Answer 16

Contamination of the environmental by any chemical or other agent such as noise or heat to a level that is harmful to the health.

Question 17

Environmental degradation

Answer 17

Living unsustainably by wasting depleting and degrading the earths natural capital.

Question 18

Less-developed countries

Answer 18

83% of the worlds people live or classified as it.

Question 19

More-developed countries

Answer 19

Industrialized nations high average income per person.

Question 20

Non renewable or exhaustible resources

Answer 20

Fixed quantity or stock in the earths crust.

Question 21

Sustainable yield

Answer 21

Highest rate at which we can use renewable resources indefinitely without reducing its available supply.

Question 22

Inexhaustible resources

Answer 22

One that can be replenished by natural process within hours to centuries.

Question 23

Resources

Answer 23

Anything that we can obtain from the environment to meet our needs and wants.

Question 24

A responsibility to future generations

Answer 24

That we should leave the planets life-support systems in an least as good a condition.

Question 25

Win-win solutions

Answer 25

Where we can learn to work together in dealing with environmental problems.

Question 26

Full-cost pricing

Answer 26

Gives consumers better info about environmental impacts, lifestyles allows them to make more informed choices about goods and services they use.

Question 27

Ecosystem services

Answer 27

Process provided by healthy ecosystems that support life and human economics at no monetary cost to us.

Question 28

Natural resources

Answer 28

Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans.

Question 29

Natural capital

Answer 29

Natural resources and ecosystem services that keep us and other species alive and support human economies.

Question 30

Chemical cycling

Answer 30

Circulation of chemicals nessary for life from the environment through organisms.

Question 31

Biodiversity

Answer 31

Variety of genes, organisms, species, and ecosystems in which organisms exist and interact.

Question 32

Nutrients

Answer 32

The chemicals necessary for their own life processes.

Question 33

Solar energy

Answer 33

Warms the planet and provides energy that plants use to produce nutrients.

Question 34

Environmentalism

Answer 34

A social movement dedicated to trying to sustain the earths life-support systems for all forms of life.

Question 35

Ecosystem

Answer 35

A set of organisms within a defined area of land or volume of water that interact with one another and with their environment of no living matter and energy.

Question 36

Species

Answer 36

A group of organisms that has a unique set of characteristics that distinguish it from other groups of organisms.

Question 37

Organisms

Answer 37

What these living things are called.

Question 38

Ecology

Answer 38

A key component of environmental science where the biological science that studies how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

Question 39

Environmental science

Answer 39

Interdisciplinary study of humans interact with living and non living things of their environment.

Question 40

Environment

Answer 40

Everything around us which includes living and non living things.

Question 41

Sustainablity

Answer 41

The capacity of the earths natural systems and human cutural systems to survive, flourish, and adapt to changing environment conditions into the very long-term future.