Chapters 1 - 5 cuz dumbass keeps forgetting the word definitons

Natural Capital

the natural resources and environmental features in a given area, regarded as having economic value or providing a service to humankind.

Ecological Services

A cycle that gives back nutrients that is later used by organisms (elongates sustain ability)

Ecological Footprint

The excessive misuse of renewable resources

Environmental Ethics

The study of varying beliefs about what's wrong and right concerning how people treat the environment.

Life-Centered Worldview

The belief that all species have a value in fulfilling their role in the ecosystem, regardless of their use to society.

Environmental Worldview

The set of assumptions and values concerning the natural and what you think your role is in managing it is.

Human-Centered Worldview

Sees that natural world as a support system for human life. The two parts being Stewarship and Planetary Management.

Earth-Centered Worldview

The belief that people are dependent on nature, and that natural capital isn’t just for us.

Natural Income

The portion of renewable resources that can be sustainibly.

Chemical Nutrient Cycling

The circulation of chemical for life from the environment (usually through water and soil) through organisms, and back to the environment.

Ecological Deficit

Occurs when ecological footprint is larger than the biological capacity to replenish resources.

Per Capita

The average ecological footprint for an individual in an area.

Sustainability

The ability of Earth’s natural system and human cultural system to survive for long term future.

Tragedy of the Commons

When large number of folx exploit a shared/open resource unsustainably

Scientific Method

Practices to advance knowledge and understanding of how the world works.

Scientific Hypothesis

A possible and testable answer to a scientific question or explanation.

Scientific Theory

An important and certain result of science, that is based on large bodies of evidence.

Scientific Law

Well-Tested and highly accepted descriptions of observations that used in all experiments.

Element

A type of matter that cannot be broken down into simpler substance by chemical means.

Compound

A combination of two or more different elements that are held together in certain proportions.

Isotope

When the number of a subatomic particles vary in number, change in density, but remain the same element.

Ion

3rd building block of life; the combination of two or more atoms of same or different elements, which are connected by chemical bonds.

Organic Compound

A carbon based compound that are made of at least two carbon atoms that connect with other atoms with one or more elements.

Law of Conservation of Matter

When matter goes through a chemical or physical change, no atoms are created or destroyed.

1st Law of Thermodynamics

When energy changes from (chemical and physical), no energy is created or destroyed.

2nd Law of Thermodynamics

Energy becomes of lower quality every time is it transferred. (Becomes heat, but it disperses really fast)

Ecological Tipping Point

When the system changed drastically to the point that it suffers from degradation and collapse.

Feedback Loop

When Matter, energy, or information that this fed back into the system as an input and changes the system.

Geosphere

Consists of of the Earth’s cone, mantel, and inner and outer crust.

Atmosphere

An envelope of gassed surrounding the earth that is helped by gravity.

Troposphere

The layer weather occurs. ONLY layer where terrestrial organisms can survive.

Stratosphere

The atmosphere layer about the troposphere.

Tropic Level

Organism in an ecosystem to a feeding level.

Aerobic Respiration

When oxygen and glucose to make energy by products carbon dioxide and water.

Anaerobic Respiration

The by product that breaks down other mathon, ethyl alcohol, hydrogen sulfide. (loose energy)

GPP

The rate an ecosystem’s producer converts radiator energy to chemical energy.

NPP

The rate producers use photosynthesis to produce energy and store energy.

Holocene

Geological epoch, beginning aporx. 11,000 years ago last ice age and climate rise.

Anthropocene

When human activities became dominant influence of the environment, climate, atmosphere, landscape, and oceans.

Insurance Hypothesis

State that biodiversity ensures ecosystems against a decline in their functioning because more difference species make functional ecosystems more secure, even if others fail.

Reproductive Isolation

Random mutations and changes in response to Natural Selection to operate independently from population.

Ecological Succession

Gradual change in species composition in a given area.