Chapter 1 Introduction to Env Sci Review

Chapter 1 Introduction to Environmental Science

Review

Multiple Choice

What is the Environment?

• Trees

• Humans

• Rivers

• Everything

Open Ended

What does it mean to be ecocentric?

Multiple Choice

We, humans, benefit from the environment, but we are also a part of it.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

What does environmental science focus on?

• Protecting the environment

• Preserving the environment

• Restoring the environment

• Degrading the environment

Multiple Select

Models help us to understand

• a system

• how disturbances occur

• how, where, or when to measure changes

Multiple Choice

Biotic means

• nonliving

• living

Multiple Choice

Abiotic means

• nonliving

• living

Open Ended

Put the following in order from simplest to most complex:

ecological community, species, ecosystem, population

Multiple Choice

Terrestrial Biomes are defined by

• temperature and precipitation

• salinity, water quality, depth

Multiple Choice

Aquatic ecosystems are defined by

• temperature and precipitation

• salinity, water quality, depth

Open Ended

If bio means living and diversity means variety, what is biodiversity?

Poll

If carrying capacity is the maximum number of organisms an area can sustain (support), do you think the Earth has a carrying capacity for humans? Will humans be able to keep reproducing and never run out of room and resources?

• Yes, Earth has a carrying capacity

• No, Earth does not have a carrying capacity

Multiple Choice

What are we protecting biodiversity from?

• Aliens

• Humans