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20 Terms
Define
Give a definition
Identify/Provide
Give a definition or make a statement answering the question.
Describe
Make a statement or definition and give an example.
Explain/Discuss
Make connections.
Environmental/ecological benefits
Has to be related to the environment, and CAN’T be a benefit to humans
EX: trees provide oxygen to animals.
Ecosystem services (from environmental economics)
Services from ecosystem for humans. This provides money or a benefit to humans.
EX: Forests provide medicines for humans to cure diseases, or timber to build homes, clean water, fisheries.
Economic benefits
Related to jobs/tourism.
Environmental impact
Default is always habitat destruction that leads to a decrease in biodiversity.
Human health impact
respiratory illness such as asthma
How to get people to do things ie: make people recycle, use less oil
Subsidize or give tax credits for things you WANT them to do
Heavily tax things you DON’T WANT them to do
Outright bans on things aren’t feasible
Public education always works - ie, a PSA about the
benefits of using no till agriculture.
Math hack
If you don’t know how to solve A, but know that you need A to solve B, make up an answer for A (for example 1 or 10), and plug into B
How to fix an acidic environment - such as AMD
Add a base, such as limestone
acid rain
This doesn’t work for ocean acidification, because the
ocean is too big for that to be effective.
Always make sure to show the direction of change.
This increased, this declined.
Env impact
Habitat destruction (on that topic) that leads to a decrease in biodiversity
Economic
relate to jobs and tourism and indicate a change (increase, decrease)
How do you fix an acidic problem?
Add a base such as lime
How do people get involved?
Get them to recycle, education on the topic, PSA about effective irrigation practice
How do we change behavior or people?
Tax things you don’t like or Subsidize things that you want
Human health problem?
Respiratory illness such as asthma