Environmental Change & Management Vocab

What is the definition of the term ecosystem

• a biological community

• a place where animals chill out

• a community of living organisms and nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system

Which of the below is NOT a natural environment

• Forest

• Desert

• City

• Jungle

What is the definition of environmental issues?

• Any natural disaster like bushfires or floods

• harmful effects of human activity on the environment.

• when environments randomly stop functioning

What is the definition of climate change?

• changes in the global or regional climate patterns

• changes in the global or regional climate patterns due to natural causes

• changes in local weather

• a change in global or regional climate patterns due to human activity

Which of the below is a reason humans use the environment?

• Food

• Shelter

• Medicine

• All of the above

What is the definition of biodiversity

• the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat

• animals

• plants

• any place that has more than one hundred plants and animal species

The human species requires a healthy natural environment

• True

• False

What is a human environment?

• a special place where humans gather together

• any environment that is created by humans

• an environment that has only humans and no animals or plants

• a school

Which of the below is NOT a feature of a human environment?

• roads

• cars

• trees

• skyscrapers

The term economic refers to anything related to what?

• Nature

• Human activity

• Money

• The environment