Enviro Lesson 1

the capacity of the Earth’s natural systems to maintain stability of life.

• Environmental Science

• Sustainability

• Human Centered Worldview

• Ecology

Worldview holding that all species have value in fulfilling their particular role within the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to society.

• Human Centered Worldview

• Life Centered Worldview

• Environmental Worldview

• Environmental Ethics

Interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment

• Environmental Ethics

• Sustainability

• Exponential growth

• Environmental Science

Resource available in continuous supply for the conceivable future.

• Non-renewable

• Renewable

• Inexhaustible

• Never-ending

An individual's set of assumptions and values concerning the natural world and what they think their role in managing it should be.

• Ethics

• Worldview

• Opinion

• Ideas

Garrett Hardin described a situation where there is a conflict between the short term interests of individuals and the long term interest of society called...

• Winner take all

• Greed

• Tragedy of the Commons

• Monopoly

Wind, moving water and solar energy are all derived from

• electrical energy

• lightning

• sun

• oceans

Single identifiable source that discharges pollutants into the environment. Examples include the smokestack of a power plant, drainpipe of a meatpacking plant, chimney of a house, or exhaust pipe of an automobile.

• life centered worldview

• nonrenewable resource

• point source pollution

• nonpoint source pollution

Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" essay addressed the conflicts associated with which environmental challenge?

• preventing pollution

• protecting biodiversity

• curbing overpopulation

• protecting shared resources

.What essential resource is likely to limit the how many people the Earth can hold?

• space

• water

• metals

• oil