Science and the Environment
Understanding Our Environment
The Environment and Society
Natural Resources
Miscellaneous
100
Practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals used for a variety of purposes.
Agriculture
100
State in which a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
100
The study of how humans interact with the environment
Environmental Science
100
Characterized by high personal wealth, and high levels of consumption
Developed Country
100

Characterized by high population growth rate, extreme poverty.

Developing Country

200

How do you define nonrenewable resource? give an example

Nonrenewable resources form at a much slower rate than they are consumed

200
Humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the prairie.
Hunter-Gatherer Period
200
A resident of which of the following countries is likely to leave the largest ecological footprint? A. Indonesia B. Britain C. The United States D. India
C: The United States
200
Society shifted to fossil fuels during this time period.
Industrial Revolution
200

Amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person 

Ecological Footprint

300

Plants and animals were domesticated, human populations grew

Agricultural Revolution


300
Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” essay addressed the conflicts associated with which environmental challenge? A. Preventing pollution B. Preserving biodiversity C. Curbing overpopulation D. Protecting shared resources
D: Protecting shared resources
300
Describes conflicts associated with sharing resources.
Tragedy of the commons
300
Law describing the relationship between an item’s availability and its value
Supply and Demand
300

Which of the following situations best describes the use of a renewable resource? A. Filling a car with gasoline B. Building wooden furniture C. Mining copper D. Burning coal in a power plant

B: Building wooden furniture

400

Environmental science encompasses so many different field of study, it is said to be what type of science--

Interdisciplinary- means it involves many fields of study

400

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

Biodiversity

400

Using scientific information from chemistry and biology to devise a plan to clean up a lake and make it healthy again describes: A. Ecology B. Environmental Science C. Earth Science D. Social Science

B: Environmental Science

400

what is resource depletion

When a large fraction of the resource has been used up

400
Study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environments.
Ecology
500
What is the main reason that species are being lost to extinction?
Destruction of habitat and pollution of habitat
500
Name and describe three human activities that affect the environment
Pollution, Resource Depletion, Loss of Biodiversity, Overpopulation
500
What activities of hunter-gatherers altered the environment?
Burned prairies to maintain grasslands and over hunted large mammals
500
What were three positive developments that occurred during the industrial revolution?
More efficient agriculture, industry, and transportation; less expensive production of goods; improved sanitation, nutrition, and medical care
500
During which period in human history were most of our modern environmental problems introduced? What were they?
Industrial revolution; pollution from fossil fuels, large-scale loss of natural habitats, beginning of consumption crisis, and rapid population growth
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