Ch 1 Science and the Environment

In this period in human history, there was a shift from human and animal power to fossil fuels.

• Hunter-gatherers

• Agricultural Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

An important result of the Agricultural Revolution was

• Soil erosion

• Plant and animal domestication

• Loss of habitat

• All of the above

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Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of the Industrial Revolution?

• Fossil fuels became important energy sources

• The amount of land and labor needed to produce food increased

• Artificial substances replace some animal and plant product

• Machines replaced human muscle and animal power

Which of the following is not a natural resource?

• Coal

• Trees

• Copper

• Plastic

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What is a renewable resource?

• Something like coal and oil that is formed at a much slower rate than it is used up

• Something like water that can be replaced rather quickly by a natural process

• Something that can be broken down by natural processes

• Something that cannot be broken down by natural processes

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What are the 3 main categories into which environmental problems can be grouped?

• Resource depletion, pollution, and loss of biodiversity

• Natural resource, nonrenewable resource, and renewable resource

• Biodegradable, nondegradable, and accumulation

• Industrial Revolution, Agricultural Revolution, and Hunter-gatherers

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Environmental Science studies....

• The impact of humans on the environment

• How to understand and solve environmental problems

• The use of natural resources

• All of the above

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The term used to describe the productive area of Earth needed to support the lifestyle of one person in a particular country is called

• supply and demand

• the consumption crisis

• The ecological footprint

• Sustainability

Environmental Science includes other sciences such as..

• biology and earth science

• chemistry and physics

• social sciences

• linguistics

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The Law of Supply and Demand describes...

• availability of abundant resources

• reduced deman resulting from lack of available resources

• the worth of nonrenewable resources

• relationship between the availability and the worth of resources