Environmental Science 8
Environmental Science
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- Developed countries
- countries that have built a way of life based on highly developed business and industry
- Environmental Science
- the study of how human interact with their environment
- Developing Countries
- A country with a low level of industrial capability or economic productivity.
- Sustainability
- taking only the amount of recources from the earth you need, being mindful of waste
- Nonrenewable
- some natural resources that cannot be replaced once they are used up
- Non-Biodegradable
- cannot be broken down by natural processes
- Mass Extinction
- Many species become extinct at about the same time.
- Biodiversity
- the number of different species living in an ecosystem
- Industrial Revolution
- a time period where machines began to take over much of the work done by people and animals
- Ecological Footprints
- the amount of land needed to produce the resources needed by an average person in a country
- Renewable
- natural resources that can be replaced as they are used up
- Agricultural Revolution
- the changes that occured as people took up farming and herding instead of hunting and gathering as the main ways of making a living
- Supply and Demand
- when less goods and high demand high prices/ when plentiful and low demand prices are low
- Recyclable
- items that can be processed and used again
- Depleted
- to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of:
- Natural Resource
- something living things use that is provided by Earth. Natural resources include minerals, rocks, water, sooil.
- Tragedy of the commons
- the tendency for a resource that has no price to be used until its marginal benefit falls to zero
- Cost benefit Analysis
- when you compare the marginal costs and the marginal benefits of a decision
- Risk Assessment
- Identify, Measurement, Monitoring, Control, all of a Problem in the environment
- Ecology
- The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
- Non recyclable
- Something that cant be used again
- Biodegradable
- Waste products that are able to be broken down
- Pollution
- harmful substances released into the air, water, or soil