Vocabulary (terms, important people, laws, etc…)
Chapter 1
Environment
Natural resources
Renewable resources
Nonrenewable natural resources
Thomas Malthus
Paul Ehrlich
Garrett Hardin
Tragedy of the Commons
Ecological footprint
DDT
Environmentalism
Scientific method
Hypothesis
Theory
Controlled experiment
Natural experiment
Manipulative experiment
Ecology
Peer review
Paradigm
Sustainability
Biodiversity
World summit
Triple bottom line
Sustainable development
Chapter 2
Culture
Worldview
Ethics
Environmental ethics
Ethical standards
Virtue
Categorical imperative
Immanuel Kant
Utility
Anthropocentrism/anthropocentric
Biocentrism/biocentric
Ecocentrism/ecocentric
Henry David Thoreau
John Muir
Theodore Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Conservation ethic
Preservation ethic
Aldo Leopold
Land ethic
Deep ecology
Ecofeminism
Environmental Justice
Economics
Subsistence economy
Capitalist market economy
Centrally planned economies
Mixed economies
Neoclassical economics
Environmental economics
Ecological economics
Cost-benefit analysis
Supply-and-demand
Externalities/external costs
Growth paradigm
GDP
GPI
Nonmarket values (e.g. cultural, aesthetic,
etc…)
Industrial revolution
Agricultural revolution
Ecosystem services
Ecolabeling
Market failure
Green taxes
Adam Smith
Chapter 3
Policy (public, environmental)
Regulatory taking
Executive, judicial, legislative branches of US
government
Administrative agencies
Waves of environmental policies (first, second,
third)
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Cuyahoga River
Transboundary problem
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Environmental impact statement
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Lacey Act
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
Marine Mammal Protection Act
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Safe Drinking Water Act
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA
– “cradle-to-grave”)
Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA –
“Superfund”
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide ACT
(FIFRA)
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
(SMCRA)
Healthy Forests Initiative
Taylor Grazing Act
Wilderness Act
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Customary law
Conventional law
United Nations, UNEP
European Union
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
Montreal protocol
Kyoto protocol
World bank
Lobbying
Subsidy
Tax break
Green taxes
Permit trading
Emissions trading
Cap-and-trade system
Command and control
Chapter 4
Bioremediation
Law of conservation of matter
Atoms
Protons
Neutrons
Electrons
Isotopes
Molecules
Ions
Acid precipitation
Macromolecules
Proteins
Amino acids
Enzymes
DNA
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Eukaryotes, Eukaryotic cells
Cells
Prokaryotes, Prokaryotic cells
Organelle
Energy
Potential energy
Kinetic energy
Chemical energy
Thermal energy
Thermodynamics
Autotrophs, primary producers
Photosynthesis (know equation)
Cellular respiration (know equation)
Heterotrophs
Chemosynthesis
Fossil
Fossil fuel