Do Now – 5 Minutes

Topic – 1.1: Our Island, Earth• Based on your notes from yesterday, explain

how an environmentalist is different from an environmental scientist.

• Site two reasons they are similar and two

reasons they are different.

Terminology�Environmental Science:

The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.

Terminology�Natural Resources:

Materials and energy sources found in nature that humans need in order to survive.

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Terminology�Renewable Resources:

Natural resources that are naturally replenished, or renewed, over short periods of time.

Terminology�Nonrenewable Resources:

Natural resources that are naturally replenished much slower than we use them up. Once depleted – they are gone forever.

Terminology�Sustainable:

If a resource can be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future and not be depleted.

Terminology� “Dem Easter Island Heads Tho…”

Terminology�Fossil Fuels:

Nonrenewable energy sources such as oil, coal, and natural gas.

Terminology�Ecological Footprint:

The environmental effects an individual or population has in terms of total amount of land and water required to provide resources for themselves and to dispose of their waste.

Superfunds and You�Knowing what you know about superfunds,

Love Canal, and New Jersey, write a sample letter to your local Congressman about how you feel about the state’s history with the environment.

� Include at least five of the vocabulary words we learned in class and underline them when you have used them.