EVSC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Greenpeace, Lithosphere, Environmentalism

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Key Concepts* for EVSC 100 (Surrey) Midterm Exam
*Note: this list is not inclusive of concepts from tutorial -lecture only
Updated February 21st, 2014
Why and What is Environmental Science?
Presented 1/10/14
-Global Environmental Change is a catchall term to encompass other kinds of change in
addition to climate change
-Climate Change one type of global change
-Global Warming refers to the average global surface temperature increase from human
emissions GHGs
-Anthropogenic Climate Change
-Environmental Science
1. Extremely applied
2. Relies on traditional scientific disciplines (phy, chem, bio)
3. Inform public and decision makers about the consequences
4. Intense controversy
-Environmentalism (GreenPeace)
1. Broad philosophy and social movement centered on concern fro the natural
environment and conservation
2. Radical to reformist
3. Earliest in 9th Century Middle East (Arab Agricultural Revolution)
-London King Edward 1 banned “sea coal”1952 London smog
Rachel Carson<- DDT banned
Aldo Leopold<- Conservation (=/=Preservation)
-Environmental Studies
1. Broad discipline that studies effects of humans and their activities on environmental
quality and human well - being.
2. Subset (including non-science disciplines econ, law…)
-Ecology
1. Relationships among organism and particular components of their environment
(population dynamics, community ecology, biodiversity)
-Science vs. Management
Environmental Earth Systems I
Presented 1/17/14
-Scientific Method
-Law
-Theory
-Hypothesis
-Spatial Scales
-Temporal Scales
-Lithosphere
-Minerals
-Rocks
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