Environmental Science Chapter 1 Review

In which country is the average citizen likely to be using the greatest amount of natural resources?

Environmental science is the study of which type of interactions between humans and environment?

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

when the last member of a species dies

Rate of resource use depletes resources and creates pollution and wastes

sunlight and forests

Society shifted to fossil fuels

All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except

Characterized by high personal wealth, and high levels of consumption

Humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the prairie

Plants and animals were domesticated, human populations grew

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

Which of the following situations best describes the use of a renewable resource?

Population growth in the 20th century accelerated which environmental stress?

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

Which is not a major contributor to environmental science?

Which of the following is studied in environmental science?

Compared with their counterparts in developed countries individuals in developing nations typically have a

Describes conflicts associated with sharing resources

Which was not a result of the Industrial Revolution?

Achieving a sustainable world is a goal that will depend on

introduction of harmful levels of chemicals or wastes into the environment

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

science focused on environmental effects of human activities

Undesired change in air, water, or soil

Most environmental problems began during which period in human history?

a science focused on interactions between organisms and the environment

Characterized by high population growth rate, extreme poverty

Which of the following lists contains the names of developed countries?

Listing both the merits and expenses involved in implementing a particular environmental solution is an example of a(n)