EGGS 100 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Review

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Environmental science: study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, how we affect our environment. Evironmentalism: social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world. Ecosystem services: natural services that we could not survive without. Agricultural revolution: grow crops, raise domestic animals, live sedentary lives. Industrial revolution: shift from rural life and animal-powered agricultural to urban society with mass production. Tragedy of the commons: everyone takes what they want of natural resources until it is depleted. Ecological overshoot: surpassing earth"s capacity to sustainably support us. Scientific method: technique for testing ideas with observations. Hypothesis: attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a question. Environmental ethics: application of ethical standards to relationships between people and nonhuman entities. Anthropocentrism: human centered view of our relationship with the environment. Biocentrism: the view or belief that the rights and needs of humans are not more important than those of other living things.

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