Wink words

WINK Words
Biocapacity	The capacity of ecosystems to produce useful materials for humans and to absorb waste products. Australia is reaching its bio capacity.
Biome	An environment that is characterized by its vegetation and local climate. If we cross the equator we will be in a different biome.
Diversity	Something that is unique to other things. Diversity is everywhere.
Cultural Diversity	Diversity between social structures and belief systems. When I travel abroad I experience cultural diversity.
Biodiversity	Biodiversity is the number and variety of living organisms? In the park near my house there is a biodiversity of animals.
Habitat	A type of site where a population of something lives. Don’t cut down these trees, they are the birds habitat.
Biological capacity per person	The ecological hectare set aside for each person My biological capacity per person is 2 hectares.
Per capita	Per person
Ecosystems	Living organisms working with non-living components of the environment. The forest is an ecosystem.
Ecological Overshoot	When humans use everything they have been provided with before the time to use it all up by has come around. The date of ecological overshoot in 2014 was in August.
Ecological Resources	A natural resource that is used to make objects. Cotton is an ecological resource that goes into making T-Shirts.
Carbon footprint	The amount of carbon per hectare. “I will measure the carbon footprint in the atmosphere for my research into climate change”.
Consumption	The use of goods or services “Jonny’s families consumption is more than my family”.
Ecological Deficit	An ecological deficit takes place when a population use more than their bio capacity. In August of 2011 the world was ecological deficit
Economy	An economy system consists of the production, distribution or trade of goods or services. Australia’s economy is going well.
GDP or GNP	GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product, it is the total value of goods and services provided in a year to a country.
GDP per capita	The total goods and services provided for a person in a year.
Economic Productivity	Economic Productivity is the amount of product and the value of them that something makes in a certain amount of time. The worker’s productivity in an hour is $30.
Economic Growth	Economic Growth is the increase in market value of goods over time. The Economic growth of my iPhone was 15%.
Primary Industry	An industry producing natural products Mining workers work in a primary industry
Primary Product – give an example	A primary product is timber.
Secondary Industry	An industry producing finished products, like cars and phones. My phone was made by a secondary industry
Secondary Product– give an example	My car
Population density	How much things of a population are inside every km2 of the area the population consumes. On average there are 47 people per km2 of the Earth.
Population aging	The rising age of the average person in a country or region.
Mortality Rate	The death rate in a certain place. The mortality rate for Australia is X.
Natural Resources	Anything that Human’s can use that comes from nature. Water is a commonly used natural resource.
Economic Trade Off	A sacrifice to obtain a certain product. I made a economic trade off of a holiday to get my iPhone.
Standard of Living	The standard of living in a certain country in terms of wealth, comfort, material goods and necessities. The standard of living in Australia is high.
Economic Inflation	The price of goods and services rising over a period of time.
Economic Recession	An economic recession is when the economy comes to a stand still and the unemployment rates rise. Between 1929 and 1939 there was a major economic recession.
How Supply and Demand Influence prices	If there is a lot of something it will be cheaper and more available and if there is not much of something then it costs more. Finite resources cost more because they are finite.
Trade	Trade is the goods owned by someone transferring to someone else for another item, such as money. Southland is full of trade shops.
Sequester	Taking CO2 out of the atmosphere and trapping it somewhere.