APES Term 1
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- Stewardship
- preserving environment, taking care, individual responsibility, poactive, raising awareness, morals, ethics - connects with sustainability
- Sound Science
- Science and results that are based on fair and true inferences and reasoning
- Junk Science
- Science and results that are based on false inference or faulty reasoning
- Ecological Footprint
- How much area you use up. Area to raise your food, transportation, manufacturing...
- NIMBY
- Not In My BackYard
- Environmental Justice
- accoutability, protection, equity, justice amongst people - most pollution in poorer communities
- Goods and Services
- Goods (Air, Lumber, Water, Food) items provided by environment, Services (Cleaning water, Decomposition, Flood prevention) processes provided by enviroment
- Biodiversity
- H' - combines how many species (richness) with distrubution of individuals among species (H'=-Sum[Pi*ln(Pi)])
- Species Richness
- (S) - How many species are present
- Density
- (D) - Average # of individuals in 1 square on tray
- Eutrophication
- A process where a body of water receives excess nutrients that stimulates plant growth
- Sustainability
- The ability of an ecosystem to sustain itself. Only a certain amount of energy can be taken out to sustain the environment.
- Environmental Racism
- Isolating and exploiting one specific race. ie. dumping toxic chemicals in a predominantly black neighborhood.
- Ion
- An atom or group of atoms that are normally electrically nuetral but gain their status be addition or loss of an electron.