Environmental Science Unit 1 Test

Which is one of the five basic causes of environmental problems?

• Affluence

• Biodiversity

• Population Growth

• Sustainability

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If your friend holds the belief that all life has a purpose, even the most annoying like mosquito's, they most likely have which worldview?

• Earth-Centered Worldview

• Life Centered Worldview

• Human Centered Worldview

If you believed that we need to support nature and learn from the environment, you most likely have this worldview

• Life Centered Worldview

• Earth-Centered Worldview

• Human Centered Worldview

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A person who believes that the Earth is here to support Human Life only they most likely have this worldview

• Human Centered Worldview

• Life Centered Worldview

• Earth-Centered Worldview

This resource cannot be used up or depleted (ex: solar energy)

• Renewable Resource

• Inexhaustible Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

This resource exists in fixed amounts, and take millions to billions of years to form.

• Inexhaustible Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

This resource can be replenished rapidly (in hours to centuries)

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Inexhaustible Resource

The variety of life, that we can look at through the lens of species, genetic, ecosystem, or functional varieties.

• Extinction

• Biodiversity

• Ecosystem Diversity

• We just call it variety of life.

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This type of biodiversity focuses on the variety of processes in the ecosystem such as nutrient cycling, food webs, etc.

• Species Diversity

• Genetic Diversity

• Ecosystem Diversity

• Functional Diversity

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An important reason for why biodiversity matters due to ensuring against an ecosystems collapse, because the more diverse the ecosystem the more functions in the ecosystem. This is known as:

• Biodiversity

• The Insurance Hypothesis

• The Hypothesis

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