Environmental Science Semester 1 Final

Which of the following are considered part of the environment?

• forest
• people
• buildings
• all of these

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

• Wave Energy

1. Sustainability is defined as…

• Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

• Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

• Maintaining a rate of resource consumption that will allow the population to survive indefinitely.

• Not consuming any resources at all.

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An average person from _______________ would be expected to have a higher ecological footprint than the other two countries.

• Country "A"

• Country "B"

• Country "C"

• None of the above; They would have roughly equal ecological footprints.

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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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Environmental science applies to all of the following EXCEPT...

• How the natural world works

• How much greenhouse gas is produced

• How our environment affects us

• How we affect our environment

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Which is a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from human actions

• Environmental Science

• Environmental Policy

• Environmental Ethics

• Environmentalism

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Which is NOT a step in the scientific method?

• Make observation
• Form a theory
• Collect data
• Form a hypothesis

A testable explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested. 

• data
• theory
• hypothesis
• fact

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