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Environmental Science Chapter 1
Environmental Science Chapter 1
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Environmental Science by Heithaus and Arms
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1
The movie & lab we watched/did is called the "Tragedy of the People"
True
False
2
What is qualitative data?
letters
Controls
numbers
letters and numbers
3
The productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country.
Nothing left behind
Red Zone
echological footprint
Eco -friendly hand prints
4
How humans needs can be met and human population can survive indefinitely at the standard living
Consumption
Agriculture
Substance
Sustainability
5
What is the first step in the Scientific Method?
Have a question or problem
Conclusion
Hypothesis
Experimentation
6
The number and variety of species that live in an area
population
diversity
animal pollution
biodiversity
7
Pollutants that are not broken down by natural processes are
sewage
biodegradable
nonrenewable
nonbiodegradable
8
What are 2 of the 5 mammals that went extinct during hunter-gather period
Dinosaurs & Woolly Mammoth
Elephants and Zebras
Panda bears and Hyppos
Giant sloths & Cave bears
9
The study of human population
Social Sciences
Earth Science
Physics
Biology
10
The U.S. has the largest ecological footprint
True
False
11
Major fields of Study in Environmental Science
Earth Science, Social Sciences, Geology
Envirohistory, Physics, Earth Science
Biology, Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry and Social Sciences
Biology, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and Social Studies
12
Which one is NOT a renewable resource?
Water
fossil fuels
Wood
Air
13
The study of the environment that includes the physical, biological, and social sciences
Environmental Science
Chemistry
Earth Science
Biology
14
Which of the following is a renewable resource
wood
salt
metals such as iron, aluminum and copper
sand
15
The greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that products is worth
economics
law of physics
Newton's law of motion
law of supply and demand
16
The period where a shift from energy resources like humans and animals switched to fossil fuels, such as coal and oil
Farmland Pac
Industrial Revolution
American Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
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The practice of growing, breeding and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing & transpor
Architecture
Aerospace
Agriculture
Aerodynamics
18
What period came first in Scientific history?
Industrial Revolution
Pickin and Scattering
Agricultural Revolution
Hunter-Gatherer
19
What is quantitative data?
letters
letters and numbers
numbers
controls
20
Pollution is an undesired change in air, water or soil that adversely affects the health, survival or activities of us
False
True
21
The study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment
Biology
Geography
Ecology
Physics
22
During the agricultural revolution
People followed the herds
human populations decreased due to disease.
fossil fuel use increased
plants & animals were domesticated
23
What can be inferred about speed and breaking distance from the graph?
speed decreases; breaking distance increases
There is no correlation
Speed increases; breaking distance decreases
Speed increases; breaking distance increases
24
Earth is a closed system
True
False
25
What balances the cost of the action against the benefit expected from it?
Cost controls
Cost-benefit anaylsis
Yin and Yang
economics
26
Important effect of the agricultural revolution was
soil erosion
All of the above
habitat destruction
plant and animal domestication
27
Natural materials that are used by humans are called natural resources
True
False
28
Which of the following is NOT part of Biology?
Zoology
Botany
Ecology
Climatology
