Vocab Ch. 1 Ecology
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- environmental worldviews
- how ppl think the world works
- pollution prevention
- reduces or eliminates the production of pollutants
- environmental degradation
- depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource
- point sources
- where pollutants come from single, identifiable sources
- recycling
- collecting and reprocessing a resource into new products
- nonrenewable resources
- resources that exist in a fixes quantity or stock in the earth's crust
- pollution
- any addition to air, water, soil, or food that threatens the health, survival, or activities of humans or other living organisms
- reuse
- using a resource over and over in the same form
- nonpoint sources
- where pollutants come from dispersed sources
- pollution cleanup
- cleaning up pollutants after they have been produced
- ecological footprint
- the amount of land needed to produce the resources needed by an average person in a country
- environmental ethics
- what ppl believe is right and wrong