Ch.1 Vocabulary Test #2_Env. Sci.

Portion of renewable resource that can be used sustainably.

• Natural income

• Natural capital

• Natural resource

• Middle income

Amount of land and water needed to supply a population with renewable resources and to absorb and recycle the waste and pollution such resource use produces.

• Exponential growth

• Ecosystem service

• Sustainability

• Ecological footprint

Study of varying beliefs about what is right or wrong with how people treat the environment.

• Ecological footprint

• Environmental ethics

• Virtue ethics

• Environmental worldview

Contamination of the environment by any chemical or agent, such as noise or thermal energy, at levels considered harmful to the health, survival, or activities of organisms.

• Invasive species

• Pollution

• Nonpoint source

• Point source

A society that protects natural capital and lives off its income while also meeting the current and future basic resource needs of its people.

• Ecosystem society

• Middle income

• Environmental worldview

• Environmentally sustainable society

Type of pollution in which pollutants come from many diffuse sources that are hard to pinpoint. Sources include runoff of water and pollutants from cropland, residential areas, clear-cut forests, and construction sites.

• Exponential growth

• Nonpoint source

• Point source

• Pollution

Growth in which some quantity, such as population or economic output, increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time; starts slowly but the quantity soon becomes enormous.

• Exponential growth

• Ecological growth

• Ecosystem growth

• Pollution

Resource that can be replenished rapidly (in hours to centuries) through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is replaced. Ex. forests, grasslands, wildlife, fertile topsoil, clean air & fresh water.

• Nonrenewable resource

• Renewable resource

• Inexhaustible resource

• Exponential growth

Worldview holding that all species have value in fulfilling their particular role within the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to society; includes the belief that people have a responsibility to be caring and responsible stewards of the planet.

• Human-centered worldview

• Life-centered worldview

• Earth-centered worldview

• Environmental worldview

Social movement dedicated to protecting Earth and its resources.

• Ecology

• Environmentalism

• Ecological footprint

• Environmental science