APES: Unit 1: Part 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Developed Countries | highly industrialized countries with high incomes and high standards of living |
| Developing Countries | countries that have lower average incomes, simple and agriculture-based economies, and rapid population growth; has a lower consumption of natural resources |
| Globalization | The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world. |
| Sustainability | The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained |
| Natural Capital | the natural resources and natural services that keep us and other species alive and support out economies |
| Rule of 70 | 70/percentage growth rate=doubling time in years |
| Economic Growth | the ability of the economy to produce increasing quantities of goods and services |
| Economic Development | The improvement of living standards by economic growth. |
| Perpetual Resources | come from sources that are virtually inexhaustible and indestructible. These include solar power, wind, waves, tides, and geothermal energy. |
| Renewable Resources | resources that can be replaced in a lifetime |
| Nonrenewable Resources | resources that cannot be replaced in a short amount of time, people will use them up before they can be replaced by nature |
| Sustainable Yield | the highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply |
| Anthropogenic | Human-induced changes on the natural environment |
| Environmental Degradation | Depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource such as soil, grassland, forest, or wildlife that is used faster than it is naturally replenished. |
| Per Capita | Per unit of population; per person |
| Point Source Pollution | water pollution that comes from a known and specific location |
| Nonpoint Source Pollution | water pollution that does not have a specific point of origin |
| Ecological Footprint | Shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country |
| Tragedy of the Commons | A parable that illustrates why common resources get used more than is desirable from the standpoint of society as a whole |
| Aldo Leopold | A man who was a pioneer in the conservation movement. He was the founder of the wilderness society, created in 1935. He is most famous for writing "A Sand County Almanac." Published in 1949 |
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