Environmental Science Mid-term Review Part 1

What is Environmental Science?

• The study of how living things interact with each other and their nonliving environment

• the study of the impact of humans on the environment.

• The practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing , housing, transportation, and other purposes.

What is Ecology?

• The study of how living things interact with each other and their nonliving environment

• the study of the impact of humans on the environment.

• Any natural material that is used by humans

What is Agriculture?

• The study of how living things interact with each other and their nonliving environment

• Any natural material that is used by humans

• The practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing , housing, transportation, and other purposes.

What is a Natural Resource?

• an undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms

• Any natural material that is used by humans

• refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area

What is Biodiversity?

• refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area

• Any natural material that is used by humans

• an undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms

What is law of supply and demand?

• refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area

• Any natural material that is used by humans

• the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that thing is worth

What is ecological footprint?

• the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.

• the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that thing is worth

• the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

An important effect that hunter-gatherer societies may have had on the environment was?

• extinction

• nondegradable

• Ecology

An important effect of the agricultural revolution was?

• Sustainability

• Soil erosion, habitat destruction and plant and animal domestication

• the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Is oil renewable or non-renewable?

non-renewable

• renewable

• nonrenewable