Environmental Science Chapter 1 Notes

Which of these is an example of a renewable resource?

Environmental problems can be generalized. Resource Depletion, ______, and Loss of Biodiversity

Environmental Science involves the study of

Medical care vastly ______ during the agriculture productivity movement.

What technique was one of the earliest ways to convert land to farmland?

What reduced the amount of work needed to do to produce food on farms?

Earth is essentially a what?

______ obtain food by collecting plants and by hunting animals or scavenging their remains

The plants we eat today are descendants of what?

What fossil fuels were used during the Industrial Revolution?

_______ can be replaced relatively quickly by natural process.

What is a major goal of environmental science?

______ pollutants can be broken down by natural process

With the increase in transportation technology, what in the US moved the most?

The practice of agriculture started all over the world over how many years ago?

Hunter-Gatherers may have led to the disappearance of this species:

The depletion of the Ozone Layer would be an example of a ______ environmental problem.

What forms at a slower rate than is consumed?

What is the variety of organisms in a given area or a variety of communities in an ecosystem?

______ is the growing of crops and livestock for food and human consumption.