1 - Intro to APES

Essential Questions:

What is your environmental worldview?
What lessons can we learn from Easter Island?
How do we measure our impact on the Earth's environement?
What do the tragedy of the commons and externalities relate to the environmental problems?
How do you design a good experiment?
What are some values of ecosystems?

Vocabulary:

worldviews (planetary management, stewardship, environmental)

Environmental indicators and sustainability (Module 2) Biodiversity, genetic diversity, species diversity, anthropogenic, per capita, sustainability, ecological footprint, externalities, tragedy of the commons

Scientific method terms (Module 3) purpose, hypothesis, null hypothesis, data, analysis, conclusion, replication, sample size, theory, control group, constants, dependent and independent variables, baseline data, dissemination, natural experiment, accuracy, precision, uncertainty

Ecosystem values (pages 657-660) Intrinsic, instrumental, provisions, regulating, support, resilience, cultural, monetary