Vocab
Change
Studies of Ecology
Society
Misc.
100

helps determine a product’s worth

Law of supply and demand

100

Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” essay addresses the conflicts associated with what environmental challenge?

Protecting Shared Resources

100

What is the study of living organisms?

Biology

100

may be used to determine how much to spend to control pollution

Cost-Benefit Analysis

100

What is a sustainable world?

Human needs are met in a way that allows humans survive indefinitely.

200

society shifted to fossil fuels

Industrial Revolution

200

What allowed the human population to grow at an unprecedented rate and changed what food humans eat?

The Agricultural Revolution

200

What is the study of Earth's nonliving systems and the planet as a whole?

Earth Science

200

characterized by high personal wealth, and high levels of consumption

Developed countries

200

What are pollutants that can be broken down by natural processes?

Biodegradable pollutants

300

plants and animals were domesticated, human populations grew

Agricultural Revolution

300

What do we call people who obtain food by collecting plants and by hunting wild animals or scavenging their remains?

Hunter-gatherers

300

What is the study of matter and energy?

Physics

300

characterized by high population growth rate, extreme poverty

Developing countries

300

What's Mr. Rieger's favorite candy bar?

Hersheys

400

Using scientific information from chemistry and biology to devise a plan to clean up a lake and make it healthy again describes

Environmental Science

400

may be broken down by natural processes

Biodegradable

400

What is the study of chemicals and their interactions?

Chemistry

400

amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person

Ecological Footprint

400

What instrument did Mr. Rieger play in high school?

Trombone

500

The number and variety of species that live in an area

Biodiversity

500
True or False.

Animals are a nonrenewable resource

True

500

What is the study of human populations?

Social Sciences

500

What country has the biggest ecological footprint?

United States

500

Who has the most timeout minutes so far this year?

Most votes