APES Ch. 1

What is an environmental indicator?

Something that, by looking at it, tells us the current state of the environment.

What are the 5 global scale environmental indicators?

-Biodiversity: diversity of life forms in an environmen, especially genetic

-Food Production

-Average Global Surface Temp and Carbon Dioxide Concentration in the Atmosphere

-Human Population

-Resource Depletion

Hectare

100 meters x 100 meters, a measurement of land

Anthropogenic

Derived from human activity

Pee capita

Per person in a country or unit of population

Ecological Footprint

A measure of how much land is needed to sustain the food and good consumption of an individual

Scientific Method

All of this ig

Precision vs Accuracy

Accuracy: how close a value or set of values is to the actual true value

Precision: how close values themselves are to eachother

Challenges in the study of environmental science include all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Dangers of studying natural systems

B. Lack of baseline data

C. Subjectivity of environmental impacts

D. Complexity of natural systems

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