Intro to Environmental Science Review

The amount of land and water needed to support an individual.

• Time

• Ecological footprint

• Nomadic

• 1. Nonrenewable resources

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The Amazon Rainforest is a good example of this because many different species live there.

• Sustainability

• 1. Nomadic

• 1. Nonrenewable resources

• 1. Biodiversity

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Trees are this.

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• 1. Nomadic

• Crop rotation

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Environmental science is a study of which types of interactions?

• Natural resource use

• How humans interact with nonliving environment

• How humans change the environment

• All of these

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Most of today’s environmental problems can be traced back to what time period?

• Hunter-gatherer period

• Agricultural revolution

• Industrial revolution

• The 1980s

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Pollutants that are not broken down by natural processes

• Biodegradable

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The term used to describe the productive area of Earth needed to support the lifestyle of one person in a particular country is called

• Supply and demand

• The consumption crisis

• Ecological footprint

• Sustainability

How are natural resources distributed on Earth?

• They are unevenly distributed

• They are concentrated in temperate climates

• They are found only near the equator

• They are evenly distributed across earth’s continents

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Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because

• 1. They provide all the energy we use

• 1. They require expensive equipment

• 1. They take millions of years to replace

• 1. They can be found all over the world

What does biodiversity mean?

• Variety

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