Chapter 1

Apuntes

Chapter 1 1) Environmental science is an interdisciplinary area of study that deals with all of the following: politics, economics, and ethics. 2) Environment is defined as: everything that affects an organism during its lifetime. 3) An ecosystem is a group of interactive species and their environment. 4) Wolves reintroduced → elk decline → willows increase → beavers increase is a correct example of interrelatedness. 5) The Earth Summit was the first worldwide meeting dealing with environmental concerns, formerly known as the UNCED, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. 6) The result of the 1997 Kyoto Summit was an international commitment to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. 7) Agenda 21 was an agreement by 178 nations for comprehensive sustainable development in 1992. 8) The organization of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada that promotes sustainability in higher education is called AASHE 9) Malaria is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, with some 525 million cases occurring annually and resulting in one to three million deaths, mainly in young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. 10) Science is an approach to studying the supernatural world that invol...