PPA 1.2 The Environment & Society

What is a common?

• 
• 
• 
• a hotel

what best explains the “Tragedy of the Commons”

• “If I don’t use this resource, someone else will.”

• may be used to determine how

  much to spend to control pollution

• helps determine a product’s worth

• human needs may be met

  indefinitely

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

What best explains sustainability?

• helps determine a product’s worth

• diverse individual economies

• human needs may be met

  indefinitely

• “If I don’t use this resource,

  someone else will.”

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

According to the law of supply and demand, what would occur if the supply

of water declined but the demand remained the same?

• water prices would drop.

• water usage would drop.

• water prices would increase.

• water usage would increase.

Your ecological footprint is the

• A mark your shoe makes in soft earth.

• number of animals a person has killed.

• amount of land and ocean area needed to support you.

• number of trees a person cuts down.

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Which of the following is a “developed” nation?

• a. the United States

• b. Canada

• c. France

• d. Ethiopia

• A,B, & C

Developed Nations have

• A) higher average incomes

• B) used more resources that average.

• C)Have higher birth rates

• A and B

• A & C

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-1

Developed countries use more resources.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

A resident of _____ is likely to leave the largest ecological footprint.

• a. Indonesia

• b. Britain

• c. the United States

• d. India

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

When is your 1.2 Quiz

• tomorrow

• today

• Friday

• Yesterday