Chapter 1 APES
Chapter 1 vocab
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- Thomas Malthus
- thought there would be great famine and death due to overpopulation
- Paul Ehrlich
- neo-Malthusian
- Scientific method
- steps to solve problems systematically
- Ecological Footprint
- expresses the human impact on the planet
- Natural resources
- substances and energy sources needed to survive
- Theory
- widely accepted, well tested explanations
- Environment
- includes all living, nonliving and built parts of our world
- Renewable resources
- replenished over short periods of time
- Ecology
- study of interactions amongst organisms and their environment
- Nonrenewable resources
- no longer available after depleted
- Biodiversity
- the cumulative number of variety in species existing in an area
- Controlled experiment
- contains a control group and an experimental group
- Sustainability
- guiding principle to preserve earth for the long term
- Garrett Hardin
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Environmental science
- study of how the natural world works