ES Ch. 1 Test Review

Which of the following situations best describes the use of a renewable resource?

• building wooden furniture

• burning coal in a power plant

• filling a car with gasoline

• mining copper

During the _____ period(s), humans altered their habitats.

• agricultural revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• hunter-gatherer

• all of these periods

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The _____ was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution.

• improved quality of life

• growth of cities

• overhunting of large mammals

• shift in the use of fossil fuels

All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except

• linguistics.

• social sciences.

• physics and chemistry.

• biology and earth sciences.

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Using scientific information from chemistry and biology to devise a plan to clean up a lake and make it healthy again describes

• ecology

• earth science.

• environmental science.

• social science.

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A focus of environmental science not studied in ecology is the

• use of natural resources.

• interaction among living things.

• influence of humans on the environment.

• interaction among non-living things

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During the agricultural revolution,

• plants and animals were domesticated.

• fossil fuel use increased.

• human populations decreased due to disease.

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Which of the following describes the depletion of a renewable resource?

• mining coal

• increasing use of solar energy to generate electrical power

• intensive cultivation of farmland that exhausts soil nutrients

• hunting of excess deer to maintain a healthy population size

All of the following issues involve environmental science except

• publishing the results of a study on fossil fuel depletion.

• studying the loss of plant and animal species.

• measuring smog levels in cities.

• asking people questions about the cost of various resources.

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The “Tragedy of the Commons” describes the conflict between

• individuals and society.

• farmers and industrialized society.

• developing and developed nations.

• Canada and Mexico.

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