Enviro Midterm Dykes 2019

A major goal of environmental science is to understand and solve environmental problems. To accomplish this goal, what two main types of interactions do environmental scientists study?

• How people depend on technology and how our use is altering our world.

• How people use natural resources and how our actions alter our environment.

• How people communicate with each other and how our actions can alter society.

• How people conserve natural resources and how our actions are preserving the environment.

What is the greatest environmental impact from hunter-gatherers?

• production of plastics and pollution

• erosion across the plains

• introduction of new foods for us to eat

• extinction of large mammals due to overhunting

All of the following were techniques developed during the agricultural revolution except...

• increased use of coal burning machines

• rotation of crops from season to season

• shift to enclosed pasture farming

• evolution of new plants into the ones we eat today

Did the following occur during the agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, both, or neither...

major air and water pollution

• Agricultural revolution

• industrial revolution

• both

• neither

Did the following occur during the agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, both, or neither...

increase in the human population

• Agricultural revolution

• industrial revolution

• both

• neither

Which of the following did NOT occur during the industrial revolution?

• People moved into large cities from small farms

• Machines are used instead of animals to perform tasks

• Fossils fuels began to be regularly used

• enclosed pastures and crop rotation began

Why is Earth compared to a spaceship?

• It has plenty of resources to sustain life indefinitely

• It cannot take on new resources nor dispose of waste easily

• It can dispose of wastes and consistently takes on new resources

• resources can easily be renewed as the need arises

Which of the following defines renewable and nonrenewable resources?

• Renewable resources will run out soon; nonrenewable are unlimited

• Renewable take a long time to form; nonrenewable are produced quickly

• Renewable resources can regenerate quickly; nonrenewable resources take a long period of time to form

• Renewable resources are man made; nonrenewable resources are all natural

Is the following a Renewable Resource, Not a Natural Resource, Nonrenewable Resource or Non of these...

water

• renewable resource

• not a natural resouce

• nonrenewable resource

• non of the above

Which of the following describes the Tragedy of the Commons?

• the environment is ours to use however we please

• natural resources can be used responsibly to meet our needs

• the environment should be preserved for future generations

• I better use as many resources as possible because if I don't someone else will