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Es Unit 1.1

Es Unit 1

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What is a broad term that describes the surrounding or conditions (including living and nonliving components) in which any given organism exists? Environment
What is a field of research that is used to understand the natural world and our relationship to it? Environmental Science
What is the definition of environmental literacy? Understanding how ecosystems function and the impact of our choices on the environment
A scientific approach that investigates the natural world through systematic observation and experimentation, is what science? Empirical Science
A research whose findings are used to help solve practical problems, what science is that? Applied Science
What is ability to understand environmental problems? Environmental Literacy
What type of problems are complex and tend to have multiple causes, multiple consequence that are difficult to address? Wicked Problems
What is the combination of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of our choices? Triple Bottom Line
What are the imperfect and sometimes problematic responses that we must at times choose between when addressing complex problems? Trade-offs
What type of development meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to do the same? Sustainable Development
What is the newly proposed geologic epoch that is marked by modern human impact? Anthropocene
What practices are capable of being continued indefinitely? Sustainable
What energy comes from infinitely available or easily replenished source? Renewable Energy
What services are essential ecological processes that make life on Earth possible? Ecosystem Services
What is the variety of life on Earth: it includes species, genetic, and ecological diversity? Biodiversity
What is a resource that is formed more slowly than it is used or that is present in a finite supply? Nonrenewable Resources
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