AP Environmental Science Flashcards

An example of relationship between the environment and animals would be from The Lorax, the Truffular trees supplied the Barbaloots with food, when the trees were destroyed, the Barbaloots were forced to leave and find food elsewhere

Something an environmental scientist might study would be how pollution from factories affect the environment, then they might propose solutions to political leaders in order to try to fix pollution

A conservation biologist may have been helping when the problems with DDT were causing bird egg shells to soften to the point where the babies couldn't survive. This arose from fish eating insects contaminated with DDT causing the fish to become contaminated with DDT, and the birds would eat the contaminated fish.

An environmentalist might be working to oppose oil drillings and the negative impacts that has on the environment. They might oppose over logging of forests as well.

A preservationist would be in support of declaring a forest as a national park so that it would be illegal to cut down any of the trees within that forest.

A conservationist would allow the logging of a forest, but only if the loggers replace the trees they cut down, and do not cut trees faster than they grow.

A restorationist would find old abandoned logging grounds where no more trees exist, and begin replanting a new forest.

Economic growth can be achieved by discovering new resources and using those, advances in technology, increase in population, and many others

Economic development comes about naturally when economic growth is achieved, because as the capacity to produce more goods rises, so then does the demand for these goods, and so they are made and the consumer's quality of life goes up.

This figure is telling of how wealthy a nation is, because it includes everything associated with the nation (EG companies based in one country with factories in another).

When comparing the amount of wealth countries have, this is a good figure to use because it acts as a standard so you can accurately compare countries.

This figure accounts for all of the production WITHIN a nation, it does not care for the wealth of that nation, only for its productivity.

The purpose of thise figure is to show how much progress has been made, and refers to the entirety of the world, so you can see what % of the GWP each nation holds

Also known as standard of living, it demonstrates how comfortably the citizens of a country would live if the wealth was evenly distributed

An accurate way to compare the standard of living between two nations, as it measures against a standard.