Vocab

People with access to public resource (commons) act in their own interest & end up depleting the resource Ex: deforestation for agricultural expansion

Measures how much resources from the environment are needed to support a specific way of life / business. Indicates the amount of pressure humans put on the natural resources available to them

Ways in which we use resources from our environment while also conserving them for future generations

Happens when a new patch of land is created or exposed for the first time Ex: when lava cools & creates new rocks

The reestablishment of an ecosystem following disturbances Ex: development after floods

The first species to colonize newly created environments Ex: bacteria, phytoplankton, algae

The last stage in succession where an ecosystem reaches a stable state Ex: a mature forest

The range of all livings things in a specific ecosystem

Describes the abundance of species within a community

The number of species present within a community or area

The variety of species on an island

Changes in population / community structures that occur at the boundary of two or more habitats

Tourism that centers around awareness of the environment Ex: hiking, camping, birdwatching

Provisioning: Things directly provided to us from nature (ex: wood that can be sold) Regulating: Benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes (ex: pollination, pest control) Supporting: Processes done by ecosystems that support a valuable human action (ex: bees pollinate a farmer’s crops, increasing the amount of produce they can sell) Cultural: Recreational / intellectual benefits we get from nature

Gigantic pieces of the Earth’s crust & uppermost mantle

Where two tectonic plates moving toward each other

Where two tectonic plates move away from each other Earthquakes are common & magma rises from Earth’s mantle to the surface

When two tectonic plates scrape past each other horizontally

Occurs when two tectonic plates collide & one plate is driven beneath the other, back into the Earth’s interior

The solid outer part of Earth Consists of the crust and upper mantle

Innermost layer of Earth

The third layer of Earth Above the Earth’s inner core and below its Mantle

Long narrow depressions on the seafloor

A lowland region that forms where Earth’s tectonic plates move apart