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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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