Intro to Env. Sci. Ch 1 Withgott

Advances in agriculture ________.

• do not include chemical fertilizers
• did not increase the amount of food per person from a global perspective
• have resulted in alteration and destruction of natural systems
• are viewed as one of humanityʹs greatest failures

Concern for the unfair concentration of waste sites and other hazardous activities in areas that are populated by poor or minorities is:

• globalization
• environmental justice
• sound science
• sustainable development

Ehrlichʹs predictions have not come true on the scale he imagined because ________.

• governments controlled birth rates in all countries
• Malthus was right
• pollution has reduced the birth rate in all countries
• agricultural advances have been made in recent decades

Rocks, wind, water, temperature and solar radiation are all examples of ________.

• biotic environmental factors
• renewable resources
• abiotic environmental factors
• abiotic environmental factors

Rocks, wind, water, temperature and solar radiation are all examples of ________.

• biotic environmental factors
• renewable resources
• nonrenewable resources
• abiotic environmental factors

Scientific inquiry is based on ________.

• the production of technological advances
• designing experiments that have never been done before
• facts that can only be proven by testing hypotheses
• an incremental approach to truth

Solutions to environmental problems ________.

• must be sustainable
• are best discussed in the political arena
• must be short term
• can be implemented only by scientists

Numerical expression of the
likelihood that a conclusion is true

• independent variable
• quantitative data
• dependent variable
• probability

Type of discipline describing
environmental science

• Interdisciplinary science
• environmentalism
• prediction
• ecology

Expectations of experimental outcome

• hypothesis
• ecology
• prediction
• paradigm