Unit 1 Midterm Review: Environmental Science

This type of environmental ethics values the entire ecological system.

• ecocentrism
• citizen-science
• environmental science
• ecosystem services
• Tragedy of the commons

________ occurs when a non-professional scientist contributes to environmental science (for example, the Great Backyard Bird Count).

• citizen-science
• environmental science
• ecosystem services
• Tragedy of the commons
• ecocentrism

The idea that if resource use is left unregulated, and people use resources at an unsustainable rate, then eventually they would be left with nothing.

• Tragedy of the commons
• citizen-science
• environmental science
• ecosystem services
• ecocentrism

Supporting services, cultural services, provisioning services and regulating services are all examples of _______________ _________________, which are services that the ecosystem provides.

• ecosystem services
• citizen-science
• environmental science
• Tragedy of the commons
• ecocentrism

____________________________ is the study of how humans interact with the environment.

• environmental science
• citizen-science
• ecosystem services
• Tragedy of the commons
• ecocentrism

The impact on the environment by Early Colonists of North America included

• a. Overhunting of fur-bearing small mammals
• b. Deforestation and land clearing to build towns and farms
• c. Introducing disease to native populations
• d. All of the above

Your _______ is your set of assumptions and values about the natural world and what you think your role in managing it should be.

• a. environmental philiosphy
• b. morals
• c. tragedy of the commons
• d. world view

Which natural resource are the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island thought to have overused, causing their society to collapse?

• a. fish
• b. trees
• c. soil
• Option 4
• d. minerals

Deforestation can cause many other effects within the environment, other than just the removal of trees. These other negative effects, such as soil loss, desertification and biodiversity loss, are know as a

• a. Cascade effect
• b. Bad outcome
• c. positive effect
• d. All of the above

The branch of philosophy that studies right and wrong in human behavior is

• a. environmentalism
• b. ethics
• c. psychology
• d. environmental science