Chapter 1 Science and the Environment Review

Society shifted to fossil fuels

Environmental Science is a study of which types of interaction between humans & the environment

plants and animals were domesticated, human populations grew

using economic considerations of resource use, the law of supply and demand describes

Population growth in he 20th century accelerated which environmental stress

natural material formed at a much slower rate than it is depleted

Compared to their counterparts in developed countries, people in developing countries have

characterized by high population growth rate, extreme poverty

rate of resource use depletes resources and creates pollution and wastes

An undesired change in the air, water, or soil

Humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the prairie

which of the following is studied in environmental science

which discipline is not a major contributors to the field of environmental science

Describes conflicts associated with sharing resources

characterized by high personal wealth, and high levels of consumption

Achieving a sustainable world is a goal that will depend on

Why is the world's loss of biodiversity a source of concern?

Most of today's environmental problems began during which period in human history

the study of living things and their interaction with their nonliving environment