environmental science

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Decks in this class (21)

01 - Environmental Problems
Academic and professional discipl...,
Integrates various disciplines ec...,
Planetary conditions for humans o...
7  cards
02/03 - Waves of Environmental Management
1st wave,
2nd wave,
3rd wave
31  cards
04 - Environmental Science Methods
Building block of sugars and prot...,
Circulation of water through bodi...,
Study of phenomena through system...
31  cards
05 - Anthropogenic Influence
Proposed geologic epoch recent hu...,
Millennium ecosystem assessment mea,
Manufacturer importer responsible...
13  cards
06 - Business of Managing Nature
Collaboration versus coordination,
Community values beliefs with loc...,
Arrangement government agency sha...
14  cards
07 - Populations and Consumption
Crude birth rate vs crude death rate,
Crude growth rate,
Average number of children per wo...
15  cards
08 - Dynamic Systems
Changing trend of a system over time,
Outside normal past present habitat,
Alien species that multiply quick...
16  cards
09/10 - Climate Change/Mitigation/Adaptation
An issue with familiar resolution...,
Regional short term phenomena sta...,
A climate phenomenon characterize...
20  cards
11 - Oceans Systems
Moves water around globe,
Water co2 into carbonic acid h io...,
Absorbed co2 2g tonnes y
7  cards
12 - Fishing on the Commons
Most productive females of a fish...,
Scientists only option is current...,
Foraging behaviour predator shift...
12  cards
13 - Forest and Succession
Changing conditions let one set o...,
Each stage of a successional process,
Biotic community develops where n...
14  cards
14 - Ecosystem Services
Tree cover 05 hectare canopy 10 o...,
Sum of all living material or of ...,
Permanent disturbance conversion ...
21  cards
15 - Agriculture and Novel Entities
Fungus venturia inaequalis infect...,
Insecticide effective efficient l...,
Chemical substances that persist ...
12  cards
16 - Chemical and Pollutants
Land that can be plowed able to p...,
Land where crops do not require a...,
Land used primarily as livestock ...
17  cards
17 - Biocapacity and Indicators
Data facet of a system describing...,
Environmental impacts of consumpt...,
Amount of biologically productive...
8  cards
18 - Fresh Water
Water travel among reservoirs,
Water supply based on precipitati...,
Hybrid aquatic and terrestrial sy...
21  cards
19 - Minerals and Mining
Renewed naturally in a relatively...,
Energy stored millions of years a...,
Extraction of earth s minerals es...
8  cards
20 - Energy and Fuels
Energy captured by wind turbines ...,
Energy from converted sunlight he...,
Coal oil natural gas
16  cards
21 - Biodiversity Conservation
Ecological system community of or...,
Environment in which a population...,
Living entity one of a population
22  cards
22 - Sustainability and Development
Triple bottom line,
Altering costal environments for ...,
Inland from high tide to first ma...
24  cards
24 - Responding to Environmental Challenges
Perspectives on environmental iss...,
Wasteful consumption of resource ...,
Least possible tread of personal ...
5  cards

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