BioII C. 1
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Created by:
reedbiology on August 20, 2011
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ReedBiology, Enivronmental Science
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pollution | undesired change in air, water, or soil |
| hunter-gatherer period | humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the prairie |
| developing country | characterized by high population growth rate and extreme poverty |
| ecology | study of living things and their interaction with living and nonliving things |
| developed country | characterized by high personal wealth and high levels of consumption |
| resource depletion | rate of resource use depletes resources and creates wastes and pollution |
| "The Tragedy of the Commons" | describes conflicts associated with sharing resources |
| Industrial Revolution | when society shifted to the use of fossil fuels |
| agricultural revolution | plants and animals were domesticated and the human population grew |
| nonrenewable resource | natural material formed at a much slower rate than it is depleted |
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