Environment
Human Impact
Environmental Problems
Society
Population
100

The _________ is everything around us.

Environment

100

Who are people that obtain food by collecting plants and by hunting wild animals or scavenging their remains?

Hunter-Gatherers

100
The practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing, transportation and other purposes.
Agriculture
100

This states that the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more the thing is worth.

The law of supply and demand

100

Developed nations use what percentage of the world's resources?

75

200

What is the study of the impact of humans on the environment?

Environmental Science

200
How did hunter-gatherers affect the environment?

They prevented tree growth and overhunted.

200
Describe a closed system and give an example.

Nothing can go in or out. Earth.

200

This balances the cost of the action against the benefits one expects from it.

Cost-benefit analysis

200
This shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country.

ecological footprint

300

What is the major goal of environmental science?

To understand and solve environmental problems.
300

Humans have changed the environment by __________, _________, and ____________.

Hunting, Growing food, Settling

300

Any natural material that is used by humans.

Natural Resource

300

This is a tool that helps us create cost-effective ways to protect our health and environment.

risk assessment

300
This is the condition in which human needs are met in such as way that a human population can survive indefinitely.

Sustainability

400

What is the study of how living things interact with each other and with their non-living environment?

Ecology
400

What allowed human populations to grow at an unprecedented rate?

The Agricultural Revolution

400

The main reason environmental problems are pressing is because of what?

The agricultural and industrial revolution allowed the human population to grow.

400

The difference between developed and developing countries.

Answers may vary.

400

This refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area.

Biodiversity

500

What are the 5 major fields of student that contribute to environmental science?

Biology, Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Social Science

500

Describe the Industrial Revolution.

Answers may vary.

500

The 3 categories of environmental problems.

resource depletion, pollution, loss of biodiversity
500

Garrett Hardin argued this in his essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons".

The main difficulty in solving environmental problems is the conflict between the short-term interests of individuals and the long-term welfare of society.

500

State 3 indicators of development for countries.

health, population growth, wealth, living space, energy use, pollution, waste

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