Terms Review Unit 5 APES

The gross national product

measures the welfare of a nation's economy through the aggregate of products and services produced in that nation. ... In this sense, it is common to see political policies that call to depredate a natural resource in order to increase the GNP.

• GNP

• GDP

• Pesticides

• Biomagnification

The green gross domestic product

is an index of economic growth with the environmental consequences of that growth factored into a country's conventional GDP. a44 Green GDP monetizes the loss of biodiversity, and accounts for costs caused by climate change.

• GDP

• GNP

• biomagnification

• pesticides

is the accumulation of a chemical by an organism from water and food exposure that results in a concentration that is greater than would have resulted from water exposure only and thus greater than expected from equilibrium. From: Treatise on Geochemistry, 2007.

• wetland loss

• bioaccumulation

• biomagnification

• pesticides

any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life that are considered to be pests.

• biomagnification

• wetland loss

• pesticides

• bioaccumulation

is defined as the increase of contaminant concentrations in aquatic organisms following uptake from the ambient environmental medium. Different sources of exposure contribute to contaminant________

• wetland loss

• bioaccumulation

• bioaccumulation

• pesticides

______play a number of roles in the environment, principally water purification, flood control, and shoreline stability. ______ are also considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems, serving as home to a wide range of plant and animal life.

• biomagnification

• wetland loss

• sewers

• bioaccumulation

_____ also contains organic matter that can cause odor and attract flies. _______contains nutrients that may cause eutrophication of receiving water bodies; and can lead to ecotoxicity.

• wetland loss

• mitigation

• sewers

• pesticides

is the process of addressing impacts to the environment caused by human action — notably those resulting of highway, energy, water, and other infrastructure projects — and follows a hierarchy. ... Finally, if environmental impacts are inevitable, there should be appropriate compensation

• migration

• remediation

• restoration

• preservation

ecology is the scientific study supporting the practice of ecological restoration, which is the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action.

• mitigation

• restoration

• preservation

• remediation

and conservation are both processes that protect the environment, but their approaches are somewhat different.

• mitigation

• remediation

• restoration

• preservation