| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850. |
| Tragedy of the Commons | Title of an Article written Garrett Harden, 1968, said there will always be a struggle because individuals will use up resources that are common even though that's not what they intend. |
| Environmental Issue | A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute of an organization's environmental aspects |
| Environmental Science | the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment |
| Ecology | the study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment |
| Hunters and Gatherers | people who survive by eating animals that they have caught or plants they have gathered |
| Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |
| Natural resource | any natural substance, organism, or energy form that living things use |
| Renewable resource | any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time |
| nonrenewable resource | resources that cannot be replaced |
| depleted | emptied; drained; used up |
| pollution | Release of harmful materials into the environment |
| Nonbiodegradable | Do not break down easily |
| Biodiversity | The number and variety of species that live in an area |
| Commons | Areas of land that belonged to a whole village |
| Short-term Interest | What's good now |
| Supply and Demand | The greater the demand for the a limited supply of something, the more that thing is worth |
| Modern Commons | Earth's natural resources |
| Cost-benefit Analysis | Balances the cost of the action against the benefits one expects from it |
| Risk Assessment | One tool that helps us create cost-effective ways to protect our health and environment |
| Developed Country | Countries that have higher average incomes, slower population growth, diverse industrial economies , and stronger social support systems |
| Developing Countries | Countries that have lower average income, simple and agricultural-based economies and rapid population growth |
| Ecological Footprint | Shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country |
| Consuming | Eating up, destroying |
| Sustainability | The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that human population can survive indefinitely |
| Biodegradable | Can be broken down by natural process |
| Why is environmental science considered to be an interdisciplinary field? | Many different branches of science, such as earth science, biology, geology, botany, etc all involve environmental science |
| Impacts of hunters and gatherers on environment? | Burning of prairies, disappearance of some species |
| Impacts of Agricultural Revolution? | Habitats destroyed, major deforestation, soil degradation |
| Impacts of Industrial Revolution? | Pollution, use of chemicals, urbanization, resource depletion |
| 3 main problems facing environment today? | Resource Depletion, Pollution, Loss of Biodiversity |
| When did we begin using fossil fuels? | Industrial Revolution |
| Difference between renewable/non renewable resources? | Renewable can be replaced over time, nonrenewable cannot |
| 3 products that come from renewable | Paper, Gatorade, desk |
| 3 products that are nonrenewable | gasoline, diamond ring, crude oil |
| Can biodegradable products cause pollution problems? | Absolutely-most off pollution is biodegradable that hasn't had time to biodegrade |
| Developing vs. Developed countries? | Developed-stable economies, higher wealth, good government, good infrastructure...developing-opposite of these |
| Supply and Demand in action | Price of gasoline when everyone buys hummers, price goes up, demand goes up, supply remains the same |
| One action that can help ecological footprint | many of these...ex. Turning off lights |
| Good CSR article components... | challenging article, clearly explained summay, well organized and written paragraph, two thoughtful questions, two clearly define words, correct mla |
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