The study of living things and their interactions with their non living environment.
Ecology
100
Natural material that is formed at a much slower rate than it is consumed.
Nonrenewable resource.
100
What is the defintion of environmental science?
The study of the impact of humans on the environment.
100
What is biodiversity?
The number and variety of living organisms in an area.
100
What are the three time periods that effected our environment?
hunter-gathere period, agricultural revolution, and industrial revolution.
200
Undesired change in air, water or soil.
Pollution
200
Rate of resource use depletes resources and creates pollution and waste.
Resource Depletion
200
Which of the following is studied in envronmental science?
a. Interactions between living organisms and their nonliving environment.
b. interactions between organisms.
c. impact of humans on the environment.
C
200
What are the 3 main environmental problems?
Resource Depletion, Pollution, and Loss of Biodiversity
200
What is the law of supply and demand?
Relationship between the availability and the worth of resources.
300
A country with a high population growth rate and extreme poverty.
Developing Country
300
A country that has high personal wealth and high levels of consumption
A developed country.
300
All of the follwing are contributors to enironmental science EXCEPT
Biology, Chemistry, Social Sciences, Linguistics, or Physics.
Linguistics
300
What are the two tyes of natural resources? Describe.
Nonrenewable and renewable.
300
What is the cost-benefit analysis?
Process in which both the merits and exspenses involved in conducting an environmental solution are listed and analyzed.
400
When society shifter to the use of fossil fuels.
Industrial Revolution
400
This term desciribes conflicts associated with sharing resources.
" The Tragedy of the Commons"
400
Name the 5 major fields of study that contribute to Environmental Science
Biology, Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Social Sciences.
400
What is pollution?
An undesired change in are, water or soil.
400
Define the term Sustainability.
the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitley.
500
When humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the praries.
Hunter-Gatherer Period
500
Time period that plants and animals were domesticated and human populations grew.
Agricultural revoltuion
500
Define Ecology.
The study of living things and their interaction with their nonliving environment.
500
Why is loss of biodiversity a source of concern?
Humans depend on other organisms for food and oxygen.
500
Define the term Ecological Footprint.
a calculation of the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country.