Chapter 2
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| Economic System | Network of people, institutions, and commercial interests involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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| Sustainable Development | Meets needs of present generation without reducing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
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| Ecosystem | All of the organisms living in a particular place and their interactions with each other and with the local climate and geology.
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| Economics | Social science concerned with production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services as well as the theory and management of economic systems.
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| Energy | The capacity to do work.
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| Work | Description of transfer of energy; amount of work depends on how heavy and/or vigorous
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| Potential | Chemical make up
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| Chemical | Form of potential; energy stored in bonds of molecules
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| Kinetic | Moving object
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| Gravitational Potential | Due to gravity
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| Thermal | Heat through motion
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| Radiant | Energy of electromagnetic radiation
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| 1st Law of Thermodynamics | Concerned with the conservation of energy: When one form of energy is transformed to other forms, the total amount of energy in a system and its surroundings is the same.
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| 2nd Law of Thermodynamics | The quality of the energy declines with each energy transfer of transformation; also states that entropy increases
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| Entropy | The amount of disorder in a system
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| Food Web | A set of feeding relationships among organisms indicating the flow of energy and materials in an ecosystem.
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| Trophic Level | Identifies species position in the overall movement of materials or energy through an ecosystem.
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| Carnivores | Feeds on other living; predators, or secondary consumers
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| Omnivores | Feeds on plants/animals
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| Herbivores | Plants; primary consumers
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| Primary Producers | Usually plants/algae (autograph) Means of photosynthesis
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| Detrivoes | Feed on organic matter; decomposers
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| Gross Primary Production | Total amount of organic matter produced by primary producers in an ecosystem over a period of time.
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| New Primary Production | Amount of food energy available for other organisms that feed on primary producers.
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| Secondary (consumer) Production | Amount of consumer biomass or energy that goes into growth or reproduction.
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| Conservation of Matter | Matter is neither created nor destroyed.
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| Biochemical Cycle | Cyclic path of an inorganic substance through the Earth system
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| Carbon Cycle | Key processes: photosynthesis, reparation
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| Substance Economy | Individuals or groups produce of harvest enough resources from the natural environment to largely support themselves.
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| Market Economy | Production and consumption of goods and services made by the people.
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| Centrally Planned Economy | Central authority makes decisions.
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| State | Property owned, by federal, state, or local governments.
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| Private | Property owned by individuals.
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| Open Access | Property in which there are no restrictions about who may enter and exploit its resources; first come, first served.
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| Common | Property owned or controlled by a community, such as indigenous tribe.
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| Positive Feedback | Increase in some factors produces increases within the system.
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| Economic Externality | Cost or benefit to environment/society resulting in production and use of product that is not included in market price.
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| Market Failure | Society is harmed because inefficiency in how goods and services are distributed.
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| Common Pool Resource | Owned and utilized in common by a community.
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| Common and Control Regulations | Regulation of an industry/activity, indicating what is and is not allowed and penalties
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| Environmentaleconomics | Assessment and management of costs and benefits of economic impacts on the environment
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| Natural Capital | Value of Earth's natural assets (minerals, air, water)
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| Ecological Economics | Attempt to build a bridge between humans, institutions, rest of nature
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| Ecosystem Services | Benefits humans receive from natural ecosystems (food, water purification)
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| Market Based Approach | Alternative to command and control regulation that seeks to encourage adherence to social or environmental goals using principles of supply and demand.
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