ENV101 - Unit 1 Vocab Review

An interdisciplinary area of study that includes both applied and theoretical aspects of human impact on the world.

• Environmental Ethics

• Environmental Science

• Preservationist Approach

• Conservation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

A method for gathering and organizing information that involves observation, asking questions about observations, hypothesis formation, testing hypotheses, critically evaluating the results, and publishing information so that others can evaluate the process and the conclusions.

• Exploration

• Scientific Law

• Catalyst

• Science

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

A theory in ethics that views human values as primary and the environment as solely a resource for humankind.

• Ecocentrism

• Anthropocentrism

• Ecofeminism

• Biocentrism

Any addition of matter or energy that degrades the environment for humans and other organisms.

• Pollution

• Triple Bottom Line

• Natural Capitalism

• Sustainable Development

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-6

An approach that seeks a balance between the development and preservation approaches

• Preservationist Approach

• Conservationist Approach

• Development Approach

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

An approach that seeks to ensure that large areas of nature together with their ecological processes remain intact.

• Development Approach

• Conservationist Approach

• Preservationist Approach

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

An approach that encourages humankind to transform nature as it pleases to satisfy human needs.

• Development Approach

• Conservationist Approach

• Preservationist Approach

Business structures that have a particular legal status.

• Stakeholder

• Triple Bottom Line

• Corporation

The use (including the over-use) of natural resources by society

• Environmental Ethics

• Resource Exploitation

• Sustainable Development

• Natural Capitalism

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

The increase in a country’s total output of goods and services.

• External Costs

• Sustainable Development

• Natural Capitalism

• Economic Growth