Study Guide for Chapters 1-3

Study Guide for Chapters 1-3

Chapter 1

Ecology-Study of interactions of living organisms with one another and with their nonliving environment of matter and energy; the study of structure.

Environmental Science-An interdisciplinary study that uses information from the physical sciences and social sciences tolerant how the earth works.

Sustainable Society- A society that manages the economy and population size without doing irreparable environmental harm by overloading the planets ability to absorb envoi mental insults, replenish resources, and sustain human and other forms of life over a specified period.

Globalization- broad process of global social, economic, and environmental change that leads to an increasingly integrated world.

Point source ( pollution)- Single identifiable source that discharges pollutants into the environment. Examples smokestacks of power plants, a chimney of a house, or exhaust of an automobile.

Non-point source (pollution)- Large land areas such as crop fields, streets, and lawns that discharge pollutants into the environment over a large area.

Resources

Perpetual- an essentially inexhaustible resource on a human scale. EX: solar