Resources such as sunlight, wind energy, and wave energy have this in common.
What is they are considered renewable?
100
A set of moral principles or values held by a person or society.
What is ethics?
100
True or False? In the US, anyone can draft a bill, but a member of the legislature must introduce it and follow it until it is passed.
What is true?
100
The policies up until about the late 1800s all hinged on the belief that the land and resources out west were...
What is limitless?
100
The effort to influence an elected official into supporting a specific interest is called
What is lobbying?
200
Resources such as crude oil, natural gas, and coal have this in common.
What is they are considered nonrenewable?
200
The moral principles that give value to all living things, both human and nonhuman.
What is biocentrism?
200
This organization provides low-interest loans or grants to countries for projects that help improve their citizens' living standards.
What is the World Bank?
200
These are the branches of the government are involved in environmental policy?
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
200
This is the term for a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This is the area in the resource continuum in which resources such as fresh water, forest products, and agricultural crops are placed.
What is in the middle?
300
Human population growth is often discussed in environmental science because the growth is occurring in this fashion.
What is exponential?
300
True or False? All economies depend on the environment.
What is TRUE?
300
Around this decade most of the major modern US environmental policies were enacted.
What are the 1960s-1970s?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is non-market value? (also acceptable - aesthetic value)
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is cap-and-trade?
400
Abbreviated NGOs, these are organizations, such as the Sierra Club and World Wildlife Fund, that help everyday citizens become more engaged with environmental issues.
What are Non-Governmental Organizations?
400
This is a service performed by an ecosystem.
What is ..... (a variety of responses)
400
This US entity of the government is the main overseer of environmental regulations.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
400
This is the term for a human-centered view of our relationship with the environment.
What is anthropocentrism?
500
This is the term for money or resources given to encourage a particular activity or lower the price of a product.
What is a subsidy?
500
These are 5 examples of both biotic and abiotic parts of the environment.
What is (a large variety of responses...as long as some are living/once-living and some are non-living)?
500
This is the comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of a specific action.
What is a cost-benefit analysis?
500
This is the description of a command-and-control approach to environmental policy.
What is the government setting a policy and enforcing punishments if it is not followed?