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Introduction to Environmental Science
Chapter 1
1. Environment
Answer The sum total of our surroundings, including all biotic and abiotic factors
2. Environmental Science
Answer The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects
us, and how we affect the environment (interactions)
3. Renewable Natural Resource
Answer Supplies that are unlimited OR can be replen- ished quickly (sunlight, wind
energy, wave energy, geothermal energy)
4. Neolithic Revolution
Answer The shift around 10,000 years ago from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural
lifestyle (pop growth)
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5. Industrial Revolution
Answer The shift in the mid-1700s from rural life, animal-powered agriculture, and
manufacturing by craftsman to an urban society powered by fossil fuels (pop growth)
6. Fossil Fuel
Answer A nonrenewable natural resource produced by the decomposition and
compression of organic matter from ancient life
7. Ecological Footprint
Answer The total of "direct" and "indirect" (usually negative) im- pacts on natural
resources that we as a society make on the environment to maintain our lifestyle.
8. Interdisciplinary Field
Answer Involves input from many different established fields of study across the
natural sciences and social sciences
9. Natural Science
Answer The academic discipline that examines the natural world
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