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Chapter 1 Environmental Science
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Name one of the three major environmental issues.
Ecological footprint
Global Warming
Famine
Loss of Biodiversity
2
Name one of the three major envirionmental issues
Agriculture
Water Scarcity
Pollution
Famine
3
Areas that are shared: earth's natural resources
Commons
Pollution
Famine
Parks
4
An estimate of environmental solution weighing the cost of the action against the benefits
environmental issues
environmental economics
cost and benefit
supply and demand
5
Scarcity of food
hazardous waste
consumption
biodiversity
famine
6
Which item is usually higher in a developed country?
# of children
income
birth rate
death rate
7
Building a dam on Hetch hetchy was necessary to
Provide power for California
Expand biodiversity in the area
Provide Recreation area at Yosemite
Provide water for San Francisco
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What society was small, moved place to place, following the herd or the production of food?
industrial
agriculture
hunters gathers
9
John Muir, founder of Sierra Club, was considered an -----------------------
anthropcentrist
ecocentrist
10
Air, water and land surrounding an organism or a community
community
ecosystem
population
environment
11
Number and variety of species in an area
agriculture
ecosystem
commons
biodiversitiy
12
Actions of people and governments always have unexpected effects
law of carcinogens
law of gravity
law of superposition
law of unintended consequences
13
Cancer causing agent
carcinogenic
coca cola
famine
biodiversity
14
Moral relationship that humans have with the environment
environmental history
environmental issues
environmental ethics
environmental science
15
Which country would most likely to be considered "developed"
Haiti
Japan
Vietnam
India
16
Basic rule of economics: the greater the demand for a limited supply of something
cost and benefit
supply and demand
consumption
law of unintended consequences
17
What agency enforces the environmental laws?
Department of Revenue
Environmental Protection Agency
Sierra Club
Department of the Environment
18
In Bhopal, India, one of the largest environmental disasters occurred, what was not in place?
enviromental regulations
protection for workers
environmental laws
19
Condition in which human needs are met when humans can survive indefinitely
consumption
sustainability
unsusatinability
carcinogenic
20
Practice of growing,breedingand caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing,
agriculture
horticulture
botany
biology
21
Resources that we can not recycle and have a limited supply are called
Nonrenewable
Renewable
22
Building a dam in Yosemite represents what type of belief system?
anthropcentrist
ecocentrist