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Unit 1
Intro to Env. Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All the variety of life found in the world, or in a particular habitat or ecosystem at any given time. | Biodiversity |
| A modern, industrialized country in which people are generally better educated and healthier and live longer than people in developing countries. | Developed Country |
| A country that has low industrial production and little modern technology | Developing Country |
| The impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources. | Ecological Footprint |
| An interdisciplinary academic field that draws on ecology, geology, meteorology, biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics to study environmental problems and human impacts on the environment. | Environmental Science |
| Population growth that is continuous because of the abundance of resources for an ever-increasing population. | Exponential Growth |
| The average number of children born to a woman in a given population during her lifetime. | Fertility Rate |
| Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods. | Hunter-Gatherer |
| A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700's | Industrial Revolution |
| The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, such as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools. | Infrastructure |
| Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries | Medical Revolution |
| The number of deaths in relation to the population over a given time.. | Mortality Rate |
| A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area. | Population |
| The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained at a level that will continually support those that depend on it. | Sustainability |
| A social revolution marked by a rapid spread of industrialization across Western Europe, the United States and Japan, including widespread adoption of pre-existing technological systems. | Technological Revolution |
| A Parable which illustrates the tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted because people act from self-interest for short-term gain, thereby negatively affecting the larger population. | Tragedy of the Commons |
| The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities. | Urbanization |
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