Intro to Environmental Science part1

The ____________________ includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact.

• Economy
• Ecosystem
• Environment
• Ecological

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There are limits to many of our ____________________, materials and energy sources provided by nature, that humans need to survive.

• Natural Resources
• Ecology
• Environment

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Which of the following are considered part of the environment?

• forest
• people
• buildings
• all of these

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Which of these is not an example of a commons?

• The air

• The ocean

• Privately owned farms

The "Tragedy of The Commons" is...

• An economic issue where people do not have enough money to buy basic needs so they resort to stealing and breaking the law.

• A type of play where someone tragically dies or gets killed.

• Economic issue where individuals tend to take advantage of the natural resource and it becomes unavailable for everyone.

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Unsustainable

• When resources can never be replenished again.

• When resources are used or depleted faster than they can be replenished.

• When you are not mentally stable.

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What is "law of unintended consequences"?

• Bad outcomes that people do on purpose

• A law that states you are innocent until proven guilty

• Outcomes that are not the ones foreseen and intended by a person's original actions.

One living thing is called a(n)

• abiotic factor

• organism

• alive

• bacteria

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