Environmental Science Chapter 1

A natural resource that is naturally formed much more slowly than we use it is called

• sustainable
• ecological
• nonrenewable
• renewable

Which of the following is an example of a renewable natural resource?

• Copper

• Crude Oil

• Coal

• Air

1. Sustainability is defined as…

• Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

• Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

• Human needs are met in such a way that the human population could survive indefinitely

• Not consuming any resources at all.

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Which example best illustrates the point behind the Tragedy of the Commons essay?

• Various nations overfishing in international waters, leading to a collapse of fish stocks.

• A property owner clear-cutting all of the trees on his land to sell for timber

• A farmer that overplants his fields one year, leading to a poor harvest

• One country declaring war on another

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The three main environmental problems include all but

• Resource Depletion

• Pollution

• Overpopulation

• Loss of Biodiversity

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An important effect of the agricultural revolution was

• soil erosion.

• habitat destruction.

• plant and animal domestication.

• All of the above.

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An important effect that hunter-gatherer societies may have had on the environment was

• soil-erosion

• extinction of species

• air pollution

• all of the above.

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A law of economics that says the greater the demand for a limited supply is, the more the thing will be worth is

• Law of the Land

• Law of Covid

• Law of Supply and Demand

• Law of Walmart

Because the only thing that can enter the Earth's atmosphere is energy from the sun, and the only thing that can leave Earth's atmosphere is heat, we call the Earth

• a closed system

• an open system

• a sustainable planet

• a problem

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Environmental Science includes many fields of study making it a/an

• confusing science

• interdisciplinary science

• fun filled science

• wide career path