This branch of science focuses on how humans interact with the environment.
What is Environmental Science?
100
This is known as the process of cutting down to many trees.
What is Deforestation?
100
This country has over 1 Billion people but has a law preventing its citizens from have more than one child.
What is China?
100
This refers to early man's way of obtaining food.
What are Hunters/Gatherers?
100
When a species no longer exists.
What is Extinction?
200
This branch of science studies how living things interact with each other and the nonliving environment
What is Ecology?
200
Examples of this include fresh water, air, soil, and energy from the Sun.
What is Renewable Resources or Renewable Energy?
200
This law states that if one goes up the other MUST go down and vice versa... AND is also determined by the price of goods.
What is the Law of Supply and Demand?
300
This refers to the number and variety of species that live in specific area.
What is Biodiversity?
300
Lead, Mercury, and many types of plastics are examples of this, which can NOT be broken down in nature.
What are NON-BIODEGRADABLE products?
300
In the video National Geographic video "7 Billion", it reported this number of people are born every second.
What is FIVE (5)?
300
Around 10,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, Man no longer needed to search for his food as he learned how to feed himself by this method.
What is Agriculture or Farm?
300
Examples include Biology, Earth Science, Physics, and Chemistry
What are Major Fields of Environmental Science?
400
Refers to the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that human population can survive indefinitely.
What is Sustanability?
400
The most common forms of this type of energy include fossil fuels and and minerals.
What are Non-Renewable Energy sources?
400
These countries depend primarily on agriculture and have a rapid growth in population.
What are Underdeveloped Countries?
400
His book focused on environmental problems between the short-term goals of individuals and the long-term well being of society.
Who is Garrett Hardin?
500
This is an undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversly affects the health and survival of humans and other organisms.
What is Pollution?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY QUESTION!!!!!
What is 1) Human population is growing to fast and 2) People are using up resources faster than they can be renewed
500
The world's population has grown to nearly 7 Billion in just a short amount of time. These are the two main factors that have allowed the population to grow so rapidly.
What are Better Medicines and Better Farming practices?
500
As the population grows and resources are used more rapidly, this refers to a system that produces more waste quicker than it can dispose of it.