APES UNIT 1 quiz #1 vocabulary

A philosophy that emphasizes the fundamental right of living organisms to exist and to pursue their own goods.

• Biocentric preservation

• Ecological footprint

• Ecosystem services

• Environment

A measure that computes the demands placed on nature by individuals and nations

• Environment

• Ecological footprint

• Environment

• Environmental Racism

Resources provided by nature, such as food, water, energy, fiber, waste disposal, and other conditions on which life depends.

• Ecosystem services

• Environment

• Environmental Justice

• Environmental Science

The circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms, as well as the complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community.

• Environment

• Inherent Value

• Global Environmentalism

• Ethics

A recognition that access to a clean, healthy environment is a fundamental right of all human beings.

• Environmental Justice

• Environmental Racism

• Environmental Science

• Environmentalism

Decisions that restrict certain people or groups of people to polluted or degraded environments on the basis of race.

• Ecological footprint

• Biocentric preservation

• Environmentalism

• Environmental Racism

The systematic, scientific study of our environment, as well as our role in it.

• Environment

• Environmental Justice

• Environmental Science 

  
  

• Environmentalism

Active participation in attempts to solve environmental pollution and resource problems.

• Environmentalism

• Environmental Science

• Environmental Racism

• Inherent Value

A branch of philosophy concerned with right and wrong.

• Ethics

• Environment

• Enviornmentalism

• Global Environmentalism

A concern for, and action to help solve, global environmental problems.

• Biocentric preservation

• biological footprint

• Global Environmentalism

• environment