Humans and the Environment
Environmental Challenges
Politics and the Environment
Sustainability for the Future
Wild Card
100
This term best describes the pattern of distribution for the human population shown in the picture?
What is clustered?
100
Paper plates, cotton towels/clothing, wooden spoons, etc.
What are products that were made using a renewable resource.
100
This describes how the image below represents the concept of a common.
What are multiple households causing pollution in a lake?
or
What is runoff from many farms causing water pollution in a lake?
100
Advances in Internet technology, an increase in demand for resources, and treaties expanding international trade are factors.
Why globalization of the economy is increasing?
100
The process of taking excess carbon dioxide out of an environment by causing it to combine with other substances that can be stored.
What is carbon capture and storage?
200
A human community with high economic status and more access to technology would likely experience a (higher/lower) death rate.
What is a lower death rate?
200
Mountaintops are blown up to mine coal. This is a way that (renewable/nonrenewable) energy resources are obtained.
What is nonrenewable energy resources?
200
A comprehensive US environmental law that establishes national air-quality standards and regulates emissions of hazardous air pollutants.
What is the Clean Air Act.
200
Eating only seasonal vegetables, eating fewer processed foods, and switching from beef to soy.
What are changes to a modern lifestyle that would promote the development of more sustainable practices in the world food system?
200
The cultivation of only one crop, particularly in agriculture or forestry.
What is monoculture.
300
They type of society in which people use wild plants as a main food resource.
What is hunter-gatherer.
300
Point source pollution.
What is a pipe releasing wastewater from a paper plant?
(knowing exactly where the pollution is coming from)
300
Has the dual roles of preserving the natural ecology and history of designated scenic places and making them available and accessible for public use and enjoyment.
What is the National Park Service?
300
An advantage of the Green Garden technology shown in the picture below.
What is conserving water?
300
A metric unit of area equal to approximately 2.47 acres.
What is a hectare?
400
The type of society in which people use money earned through office work as a resource to obtain food.
What is administrative.
400
Nonpoint source of pollution.
What are fertilized lawns causing nutrient runoff into a river?
(multiple sources for pollution)
400
A place where a large variety of seeds are kept under cold and dry conditions in order to keep them viable for long periods of time.
What is a seed bank?
400
Proximity to supermarkets, proximity to locally grown food, distance from fast food restaurants, household income, food prices, nutrition education, and community resources.
What are food security factors.
400
Involving practices that do not completely use up a natural resource.
What is sustainable?
500
The way the society in this picture values the natural environment.
What is working with the environment to provide food to put on the table.
500
An increased consumption of beef, which increases methane production.
What is a human activity that is most likely to cause an increase in the number of cases of heat exhaustion among humans.
500
A measure of human impact on the environment, usually measured in the amount of land needed to sustain resource use.
What is an ecological footprint?
500
Ingredients are shipped from farms to the processing plant or factory where they are combined to make the food and are then packaged. Then they are shipped from the factory to the grocery stores across the country and world.
What is food transportation?
500
The setting aside of natural resources to protect them.
What is preservation?