AP Env Sci Chapter 1: Definitions
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ecology | Relationships between living organisms and their environment |
| Environmental Science | Interdisciplinary study that uses information from the physical sciences and social sciences to learn about the earth |
| Sustainable Society | One that preserves natural capital and lives off of its income |
| Solar Capital | Sunlight and indirect forms of renewable solar energy (wind power, hydropower, and biomass) |
| Natural Capital | Consists of resources and ecological services that support and sustain the earth's life and economies |
| Economic Growth | Provides people with more goods and services |
| Economic Development | Uses economic growth to improve living standards |
| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | The annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and domestic, operating within a city |
| Per Capita GDP | The GDP divided by the total population at midyear |
| Developed Countries | Highly industrialized and have high average per capita GDP |
| Developing Countries | Some are middle-income, moderately developed countries and some others are low-income countries |
| Globalization | The process of social, economic, and environmental global changes that lead to an increasingly interconnected world |
| Sustainable Yield | The highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinately without reducting its available supply |
| Environmental Degradation | The process where we exceed a renewable resource's natural replacement rate and the available supply begins to shrink |
| Economic Depletion | When the costs of extracting and using what is left of a resource exceed its economic value |
| Pollution | Chemical found at high enough levels in the environment to cause harm to people or other organisms |
| Ecological Footprint | The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply each person or population with the renewable resources they use and to dispose of the wastes from such resource use |
| Stewardship | We are the planet's most important species but we have an ethical responsibility to care for the rest of nature |
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