Environmental Science Chapter One-1

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

• filling a car with gasoline

• building wooden furniture

• mining copper

• burning coal in a power plant

During the ___________period(s) humans altered their habitats.

• hunter-gatherer

• agricultural revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• All the above

The________was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution.

• overhunting 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 sciences

• social sciences

• physics and chemistry

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

Why is the world's loss of biodiversity a source of concern

• Humans depend upon other organisms for food and oxygen

• Species extinctions have been rare throughout history

• Loss of biodiversity is not a concern because extinctions are common

• Both (a) and (b)

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)

During the agricultural revolution

• plants and animals were domesticated

• fossil fuel use increased

• human populations decreased due to disease

• 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