Environmental Science review

The environment contains

• living things only.

• non-living things only.

• both living and non-living things.

• only artificial things.

Select the best definition for the term biodiversity.

• able to decompose or break down naturally

• the variety of organisms in an area

• organic

• a native species

Select the best definition for the term sustainable.

• able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply

• the amount of a product or service offered for sale at a given price

• the amount of a product or service people will buy at a given price if free to do so

• upsetting the ecological balance by depleting natural resources

What will happen to fossil fuel reserves if humans continue to burn them?

• The fossil fuel reserves will be quickly resupplied and so humans will never run out.

• The fossil fuel reserves will be completely depleted, or totally used up.

• The fossil fuel reserves will stay underground.

• The fossil fuel reserves will definitely NOT turn into carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.

What has happened to human resource consumption in the last several hundred years?

• It has remained at the same level.

• It has decreased only slightly.

• It has increased dramatically.

• It has decreased dramatically.

The term Ecological Footprint includes

• the environmental impact of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required.

• providing raw materials the individual or population consumes.

• disposal or recycling of waste the individual or population produces.

• all of the other options are correct

All the biotic and abiotic things with which organisms interact is called ___.

• an environment

• environmental science

• environmentalism

Environmental science is the study of ___.

• how the natural world works

• how the environment affects humans

• how humans affect the environment

• all of these choices

True or false: environmentalism is a social movement dedicated to understanding how the natural world works.

• True

• False- it is a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from harmful changes due to human activity

• False- it is a social movement dedicated to studying how the environment affects humanity

• False- it is a social movement dedicated to studying how humanity affects the environment

A resource which will replenish to replace the portion depleted by usage and consumption, either through natural reproduction or other recurring processes is

• biodegradable

• renewable

• constant

• nonrenewable