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AP Enviromental
First Semester Exam Review
Question | Answer |
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Natural capital | services |
Ecology | the study of ecosystems |
Exponential growth | development at an increasingly rapid rate in proportion to the growing total number or size; a constant rate of growth applied to a continuously growing base over a period of time |
GDP | the annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations, foreign, and domestic, operating within a country. |
Environmental science | the study of how humans and other species interact with one another and the nonliving environment; a study of connections and interactions. |
Resource | anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants. |
Per capita GDP | the GDP divided by the total population at midyear. |
Solar capital | resources |
Environmentally sustainable society | the ability of earth's various systems, including human cultural systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions. |
Sustainable yield | production of a biological resource (as timber or fish) under management procedures which ensure replacement of the part harvested by regrowth or reproduction before another harvest occurs. |
Linear growth | growth by the same amount over equal time periods. |
Common property | un-owned resources that are available to users at little of no charge. |