What is sustainability?

Leading protests to end mountain top mining for coal is an example of

Life on earth has persisted for _____ despite catastrophic environmental change.

Gecko tape is a product that could replace toxin containing glues and tapes. This is an example of: _____________.

Everything around us; living and nonliving

The application of existing scientific knowledge to practical applications, like technology or inventions.

Natural resources plus ecosystem services

Materials and energy found on earth and used for economic gain.

Solar, wind, and geothermal

Which of the following energy sources are considered nonrenewable?

A resource that is replaced by natural processes within their sustainable yield is ______.

A resource available and fixed quantities, such as fossil fuels.

A tree is a(n) ____________.

Biodiversity is an example of ___________.

Reducing, reusing, and recycling is a sustainable solution.

Using resources faster than they can be replaced is _________.

Which of the following is an example of unsustainable living by humans?

low income countries such as Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Haiti use 70% of the world's resources

One of the success stories of the environmental movement is that some areas have cleaner air and water.

What is the primary cause of natural capital degradation

One way to protect shared renewable resources is to convert them to private ownership.

The total harmful environmental impacts of individuals, cities, or countries on Earth's resources and ecosystem services.

________ is when a country's ecological footprint is less than its biological capacity.

Which of the following is a major revolution that spurred population growth?

Population growth, unsustainable resource use, poverty, excluding environmental costs from full market price, and increasing isolation from nature have led to __________.

Affluence leads to high levels of consumption and waste.

Including the harmful environmental and health costs of producing and using goods and services in market prices is called _________.

The natural world is primarily us of port system for human life . Humans are believed to be separate from and in charge of nature and that society should manage the earth for the benefit of humans, commonly called the stewardship view. This type of worldview is called ________ .

The belief that all species have value and for filling their ecological roles, regardless of their potential or actual use to society. People believe that we ought to avoid hastening the extinction of species through human activities because each species is a unique part of the biosphere that sustains all life. This environmental worldview is called _____.

As leader of the preservationist movement, who called for setting aside some of the countries public lands as protected wilderness and was largely responsible for establishing Yosemite national Park in 1890?

Who led the golden age of conservation? This person established 36 national wildlife reserves and more than tripled the size of the national forest reserves. This person held a conservationist view and promoted the idea that all public land should be managed wisely and scientifically, primarily to provide resources for people.

Who wrote the book Silent Spring? This book documented the pollution of air, water, and wildlife from the widespread use of pesticides such as DDT and led to increased awareness of pollution problems in the 1960s.

A major goal for achieving a more sustainable future is full cost pricing.

We can ensure a more sustainable future by relying more on energy from the sun and other renewable sources, protecting biodiversity, and avoiding the disruption of the earth biochemical cycles.

We will benefit ourselves and future generations if we commit ourselves to finding solutions to environmental problems and to leaving the plants life-support system and a condition is good or better than what we inherited.

Bormann and Likens examined changes in water flow and nutrient content in forested watersheds. Their experimental/treatment site was a clear-cut (deforested) watershed.

Bormann and Likens hypothesis for their study was, If land is cleared of vegetation and exposed to rain and melting snow, then the land retains less water and loses soil nutrients.