Intro to Environmental Science

A subject that covers multiple fields of study

• Interdisciplinary

• Multipurpose

• Interstudial

• Multidisciplined

The amount of resources that the land has to offer

• Ecological Footprint

• Biocapacity

• Sustainability

• Environmental Justice

Making sure the soil is unpolluted so that farmers can grow crops is an example of:

• Ecological Footprint

• Being Interdisciplinary

• Environmental Justice

• Tragedy of the Commons

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What happens when something is unsustainable?

• It will run out

• It can keep going

• It will get better over time

• Most people will use it

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Earth is a(n)

• Open System

• Closed System

A resource that can be used more than once

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Inexhaustible

• Recycleable

Making sure we have enough resources to continue with our lifestyle

• Environmental Ethics

• Tragedy of the Commons

• Sustainability

• Anthropocentrism

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A human-centered worldview

• Anthropocentrism

• Ecocentrism

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Which country is developing

• One with a high GDP

• One that makes less pollution

• One that uses a lot of resources

• One that has many environmental regulations

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The impact your life has on the environment

• Tragedy of the Commons

• Environmental Ethics

• Ecocentrism

• Ecological Footprint

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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