Exam Review Chapter 1

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

• filling a car with gasoline

• building wooden furniture

• mining copper

• burning coal in a power plant

The __________ was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution.

• over-hunting of large mammals

• shift in the use of fossil fuels

• improved quality of life

• growth of cities

All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except

• linguistics.

• biology and earth science.

• social sciences.

• physics and chemistry.

In which country is the population likely to be increasing most rapidly?

• Kenya

• Germany

• Australia

• Norway

Using scientific information from chemistry and biology to devise a plan to clean up a lake and make it healthy again describes

• ecology.

• environmental science.

• earth science.

• social science.

A focus of environmental science not studied in ecology is the

• interaction among living things.

• use of natural resources.

• influence of humans on the environment.

• both (a) and (b)

_________ is a biodegradable material that becomes a pollutant if allowed to accumulate more rapidly than it can decompose.

• Plastic

• Mercury

• Newspaper

• Metal from junk cars

Which of the following describes the depletion of a renewable resource?

• hunting of excess deer to maintain a healthy population size

• intensive cultivation of farmland that exhausts soil nutrients

• mining coal

• increasing use of solar energy to generate electrical power

All of the following issues involve environmental science except

• measuring smog levels in cities.

• asking people questions about the cost of various resources.

• studying the loss of plant and animal species.

• publishing the results of a study on fossil fuel depletion.

Which country is most likely to have either a stabilized or a slowly growing population?

• India

• Canada

• Mexico

• Pakistan