Ch1 Understanding our environment

During the __________; people started raising crops and animals.

• Hunter - gatherers Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution

During the __________, machines were used to provide goods and services to society.

• Hunter - gatherers Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution

describes conflicts associated with sharing resouces

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

• Ecology

Undesired change in air, water soil

• resource depeltion

• ecology

• pollution

• nonrenewable resouce

characterized by high population growth rate, extreme poverty

• Hunter Gatherer period

• Developing country

• Industrial Revolution

• Developed Country

Natural material formed at much slower rate than it is depleted

• Pollution

• Resource Depletion

• Nonrenewable resource

• Ecology

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

• Pollution

• Resource Depletion

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

• Ecology

Rate of resource use depletes resources and creates pollution and wastes

• Pollution

• "The Tragedy of the Commons"

• Ecology

• Resource Depletion

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

• how humans use natural resources

• how humans beings relate to the nonliving environment

• how human actions alter the environment

• all of the above

The capacity of earth's natural system to survive, flourish, and adapt to changing environment?

• sustainability

• usability

• creativity

• capability