Chapter 1 Flashcards
Environment
All living and nonliving things
Environmental science
Scientific study of how the natural world works, how our environment effects us, and how we affects our environment
Natural resources
Substances and energy sources that we take from our environment and rely on to survive
Renewable resources
Sunlight, wind, wave energy. Inexhaustible
Timber, water, animal, soil
Take time
Nonrenewable resources
Consume too fast—- long time to renew
Minerals, fossil fuels
Ecosystem services
Normal function of environment
CO2—— O2
Nutrients, pollinate, climates, recycle
Agricultural revolution
10,000 years ago. Started growing crops
Industrial revolution
mid-1700s. (1900)
Powered by fossil fuels
Increase medicine, food, pesticides, fertilizer
Fossil fuels
Nonrenewable
Oil, coal, natural gas
Ecological footprint
Wackernagel and Rees
Expresses the cumulative area of biologically productive land and water required to provide the resources a person or population consumes and needs for waste
Overshoot
Practice of consuming more resources than are being replenished
64% faster
Natural capital
Planets store of resources and ecosystem services
Interdisciplinary
Environmental science —- using techniques, research from multiple disciplines
Natural science
Examine natural world
Social science
Address human interactions and institutions