Environmental Science Basics
Studying the number and size of trees is most closely related to what field?
Ecology
Seeing feathers and concluding an animal is a bird is an example of what?
Inductive reasoning
Which two revolutions greatly changed human population growth?
Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions
What are government restrictions used to protect the environment called?
Regulations
Kayaking on a river is what type of ecosystem service?
Cultural
What does the environment include?
Living things, nonliving things, humans, and human-made structures
Information collected during an experiment is called what?
Data
What was a major result of the Agricultural Revolution?
Humans developed farming and settled communities
What is cap-and-trade?
A system that limits emissions and allows permits to be traded
Wetlands preventing flooding provide what type of ecosystem service?
Regulating
Which is NOT a renewable resource?
Natural gas
Counting moose photographed by a camera produces what type of data?
Quantitative data
What did the Industrial Revolution greatly increase?
Technology and resource use
Which environmental policy often requires significant government enforcement?
Regulations
Which worldview focuses primarily on humans?
Anthropocentric
A resource used at the same rate it is replenished is called what?
Sustainable
Which is NOT normally part of peer review?
Running the experiment yourself
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Overuse of a shared resource
What type of analysis compares the costs and benefits of a decision?
Cost-benefit analysis
Which worldview focuses on individual living organisms?
Biocentric
Countries with the largest ecological footprints generally do what?
Use the most resources
How could you make a scientific conclusion more reliable?
Collect more data over a longer period
What can help prevent the Tragedy of the Commons?
Creating rules or limits on resource use
What will likely happen to crop prices when groundwater becomes scarce?
Prices will increase
Which worldview focuses on the entire ecosystem?
Ecocentric