replace the guiding text with your own words based upon your online research

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapters 1 and 4 in the Turk and Bensel’s Contemporary Environmental Issues textbook (2014).

I selected the Term  Endangered Species Act

Download the Week 1 Assignment Template and replace the guiding text with your own words based upon your online research.  Please do not include a cover page.  All references, however, should be cited in your work and listed at the the end, following APA format expectations.

In the template you will

Define the term thoroughly

Clearly relate the term to the week’s theme.

Explain how the term affects living things and the physical world

Relate the term to the challenge of achieving environmental sustainability 

Justify if the term represents an obstacle to that goal, or perhaps a technique or technology that might promote it

Suggest two specific actions we can take to promote sustainability in relationship to this term.

Provide detailed example to support your ideas.  

Please do not include a cover page, or even a place your name directly on work.  

Minimum of three paragraphs in length

Must use at least two credible and /or scholarly sources in addition to the course text.  To receive optimal credit, use at least one scholarly source from a peer-reviewed academic journal.   Use a separate page for reference