L1 Flashcards

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What did SF experience during the late 19th century, and why

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Population boom bc of gold rush

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Nat’l Park, ____ of SF, created in what year

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Yosemite Nat’l Park, East, 1890

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Disasters that struck SF during ‘06

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Earthquake and fire

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Study of interaction of humans with the natural env

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Env Sci

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All conditions that surround an organism

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Environment

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4 envs

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C limate
A ir and water
P resence of other organisms
S oil and other landforms

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Including concepts and ideas from other fields of study

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Interdisciplinary

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Major Env problems

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Resource depletion
Pollution
Loss of biodiversity

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Can be replenished within a human lifetime, and example

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Renewable resources. Timber, water

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Can be replenished extremely slowly, if at all.

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Nonrenewable resources. Coal, oil, minerals.

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Degradation/undesired change in air water or soil that affects the health of living things, also its 2 kinds

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Pollution. Biodegradable, nondegradable

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Number of difft species present in one ecosystem

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Biodiversity

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Complete loss of species. Natural even accelerated by:

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Extinction. Humans

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___ major extinction events in earth’s history

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5

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Extinctions happening at a slow rate

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Background rate

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Normal bg extinction rate for mammals

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1 in 200 years

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Discipline that studies moral relationship opf humans w env

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Environmental ethics

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Protects and promotes human interest at the expense of other orgs

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Nature deserves to exist for its own sake regardless of its usefulness to humans

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Ecocentrism

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“Greatest good with the greatest number in the long run”

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Gifford Pinochet’s resource conservationism

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Focus of Resource conservatism is to

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Protect open land

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Book about effects of pesticide to predatory birds

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)

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Threats of pollution and other toxic chemicals to humans and other orgs

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Modern environmentalism

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Essay describing the source of environmental problems as st interest of individuals or lt interest of civilization and earth

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Garrett hardin, tragedy of the commons

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Belongs to no individual, shared within society
Commons
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Basic principle of econ
Supply and demand
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Befit of doing sth justifies the economic cost
Cost/benefit analysis
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Town in India where a pesticide factory leaked large amounts of chemicals in the air
Bhopal
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In 1999, ____ was purchased by DOW chemical
Union Carbide
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Developing countries have these as compared to developed countries
Shorter lifespan Lower income Rapid population growth
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A measurement of a person's resouce use
Ecological footprint
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Developed countries have ____ economic footprint meaning that
Larger. They use more resources.
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Sustainability means
Human needs are met so population can survive indefinitely
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Nothing else enters and leaves the Earth except heat. This means earth is a ___ system
Closed
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This river caught fire bc of too much chemical pollution.
Cuyahoga