Early Societies
These early humans survived by killing animals and finding vegetation and fruits for food.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
Transition to farming communities about 10,000 years ago.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
More people increase demand for these, potentially leading to shortages.
What are natural resources?
The amount of a product available for sale.
What is supply?
Countries with high industrialization and higher standard of living.
What are developed countries?
Their environmental impact was relatively low because they lived in these-sized groups.
What is small?
Clearing land for farming caused this environmental issue.
What is deforestation?
Larger populations produce more of this, which pollutes air, water, and land.
What is waste or greenhouse gases?
The amount consumers are willing to buy.
What is demand?
Countries with lower income and industrialization.
What are developing countries?
Caused the extinction of animals like the Wooly Mammoth and Giant Sloth.
What is overhunting?
This introduced factories and reliance on fossil fuels.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Land use for agriculture and housing can cause this type of habitat loss.
What is deforestation or loss of biodiversity?
Prices usually rise when this exceeds supply.
What is demand?
Rapid agriculture in developing countries often causes this.
What is deforestation or land degradation?
What is set fires?
One environmental consequence of industrialization.
What is air or water pollution / CO₂ emissions / overuse of natural resources?
Concept describing overuse of shared resources for self-interest.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Tool comparing costs of an action and positive outcomes or results of a decision.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
Give an example of a developed country.
What is the United States, Germany, or Japan?
This is one resource they used sustainably.
What are plants, seeds, fruit, or water?
Farming and domestication allowed this to increase.
What is population growth?
Give an example of the Tragedy of the Commons.
What is overfishing or overgrazing?
Which lifestyle factor contributes most to a person’s footprint?
What is energy use?
Environmental impact of industrialization in developed countries.
What is higher greenhouse gas emissions or resource consumption?