Category 1
_________is when harmful substances are released in the environment
What is pollution?
What is Environmental Science?
What is the study of the air, water, and land surrounding an organism or a community?
In the original example of the tragedy of the commons, what animal was discussed?
What are cows/cattle?
A hypothesis is written as an _____, _______ statement.
What is If, then?
What are Hunter-Gatherers?
What are people who obtain food by collecting plants and by hunting wild animals? (Or something along the lines)
What is a hypothesis?
What is an educated guess about the relationship between the independent and dependent variables?
The Industrial Revolution Brought....
What is Steam engines, phones, showers, trains, etc?
What is an example of a Biodegradable pollutant?
What is a newspaper?
___________ countries have higher incomes, slower population growth, diverse industrial economies, and stronger social support.
What are developed countries?
What is an example of a Non-Biodegradable Pollutant?
What is mercury?
_______________ pollutants can be broken down by natural processes.
What are biodegradable pollutants?
____________ countries have lower average incomes, simple agriculture-based communities, and rapid population growth.
What are developing countries?
What are the types of pollution discussed in class?
What are air, water, land, and noise?
The Tragedy of the Commons focuses on what?
What is the short-term interests of the Individual and the longterm welfare of a society?
________________ pollutants CANNOT be broken down by natural processes.
What are Non-biodegradable pollutants?
Give an example of a developed country and a developing country
Developed- America, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, etc.
Developing- Afghanistan, China, India, Mexico, Egypt, Vietnam, South Africa, etc.
Who is the Ecologist that came up with “The Tragedy of the Commons”?
Who is Garrett Hardin?
One of the negatives of the Industrial Revolution was…
What is Habitat destruction?
_____________ is the raising of crops and livestock for food or for other products that are useful to humans.
What is agriculture?
What is the Spaceship Earth Metaphor?
What is the idea that Earth is a spaceship unable to take on supplies or dispose of waste?
The Agricultural Revolution brought....
What is soil loss, floods, and water shortages?
Calculations that show the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country is/are known as what?
What is an Ecological Footprint?
Bart Simpson believes that mice exposed to microwaves will become extra strong (maybe he's been reading too much Radioactive Man) He decides to perform this experiment by placing 10 mice in a microwave for 10 seconds (do not do this at home, Bart is a misguided fictional character). He compared these 10 mice to another 10 mice that had not been exposed. His test consisted of a heavy block of wood that blocked the mouse food. He found that 8 out of the 10 microwaved mice were able to push the block away; 7 out of 10 non-microwaved mice were able to do the same.
Identify the control and experimental groups
What is Control- Non-microwaved mice / Experimental- Microwaved mice?
Why do we use Ecological Footprints?
What is it to express the differences in consumption between nations?
The _______________ Revolution involved a shift from energy sources such as animals and running water to fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
What is the Industrial Revolution?