You are responsible for the vocabulary and concepts on this worksheet on the quiz. You do not need to hand them in.
Chapters 1, 2, 3 (skip sections 3.3 and 3.6), 4
exponential growth, linear growth, natural resources, ecology, natural capital, economic growth, economic development, developed countries, developing countries, precautionary principle, sustainability
hunting-gathering, agriculture, slash-and-burn agriculture, industrial revolution, globalization, frontier worldview, conservationist worldview, planetary management worldview, environmental wisdom worldview
scientific method, hypothesis, theories, consensus science, models, feedback loops, energy, energy quality, heat
food chain, population, community, ecosystem, extinction, biomass, photosynthesis, respiration, primary production, consumers, decomposers
open system, closed system
What is the difference between exponential and linear growth? Give an example of each.
Compare developed to developing countries. Give several examples of each type of country.
Distinguish between ecological resources and economic resources. What is the defference between perpetual, renewable and non-renewable resources? Give an example of each.
Describe the environmental impacts of hunter-gathers, agicultural society, and industrialized society.
What were the benefits and drawbacks of the agricultural revolution?
Describe the steps in the scientific method. What is the importance of measurement? What are some examples of variations on the theme of the scientific method?
Relate energy quality to the second law of thermodynamics.
Compare negative and positive feedback loops. Give an example of each.
Explain the relationship between gross production, net production, primary production and respriration.
Describe the growth efficiency for any organism.
What is the relationship between primary producers, consumers and decomposers?
Compare these three levels of biological study; population, community and ecosystem.
An example of applying the individual concepts to a broader question could be like the following. In this class we will use the term "application" to mean that you are to use what you know to solve a new problem, you couldn't have just memorized the answer.
Describe the flow of energy through an individual organism and through an ecosystem. Describe the flow of matter through an organism, but the recycling in an ecosystem.