Environmental Policy

What is the independent variable if we are studying the type of soil Japanese Maple trees grow best?

• How tall the tree grows

• The soil type

• The type of tree

What branch of the government approves or vetos environmental legislation?

• Legislative

• Judicial

• Executive

Makes use of science, ethics, economics, and political process to solve environmental problems.

• industrialization

• environmental policy

• environmental science

• environmental Impact statement

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

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These three branches of govt. are involved in environmental policy

• IRS, EPA, EIS

• Legislative, Environmental, Judicial

• Judicial, Executive, Legislative

• Environmental, Executive, Judicial

What is the goal of Modern US Environmental Policy?

• create more resources

• sustainability

• create laws

• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-3

What does EIS stand for?

• Environmental Impact Statement

• Environmental Incident Statement

• Environmental Impact Statute

• Environmental Incident Stucture

What does economics mean?

• the amount of a product or service offered for sale at a given price
• the study of how resources are converted into products and services and of how those products and services are distributed and used
• the field of economics that recognizes the relationships between ecosystems and economic systems
• the field of economics that links environmental and economic costs

the amount of a product or service offered for sale at a given price

• supply
• demand
• cost-benefit analysis
• environmental economics

a general plan and principle related to the interactions between humans and the environment.

• environmental policy
• Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
• command-and-control approach
• green tax

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-6

the amount of a product or service people will buy at a given price if free to do so

• supply
• demand
• economics
• environmental policy