Environmental History

Early hunter-gatherers

• Developed stable cities

• Had many possessions

• Lived in small groups

• Used non-renewable resources

With the shift from hunting and gathering to farming,

• Conflict between societies decreased

• Life expectancy declined

• People began forming towns and cities

• Wildlife and ecosystems were conserved

The ________ was accompanied by a shift from reliance on renewable energy sources to reliance on nonrenewable energy sources.

• Industrial-medical revolution

• Agricultural revolution

• Information revolution

• Hunter-gatherer revolution

Which of the following is a benefit of advanced industrial societies?

• Increased population growth

• Increased standard of living

• Increased agricultural imports

• Increased use of renewable resources

Which of the following is not a benefit of the information-globalization revolution?

• Models and maps of the earth's environmental systems

• Decrease in cultural and environmental diversity

• Remote-sensing satellite surveys

• Faster response to environmental problems

How many people lived on the North American continent before European settlement?

• 200,000-500,000

• 20 million-50 million

• 1 million-2 million

• 5 million-10 million

Conquering a land of apparently unlimited resources is characteristic of the

• Tribal Era

• Frontier Era

• Anti-environmental Era

• Conservation Era

8The Frontier Era last for more than ________ years in the United States until the government declared the frontier officially closed.

• 150

• 180

• 100

• 280

Which of the following people was not a 19th century environmental leader?

• Rachel Carson

• George Perkins Marsh

• John Muir

• Henry David Thoreau

Theodore Roosevelt's term of office has been called the

• Frontier Era

• Antiquities Act

• Golden Age of Conservation

• Preservationist Movement