Environmental Science Chapter 1 Review

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

• Filling a car with gasoline

• Building wooden furniture

• Mining copper

• Burning coal in a power plant

During the ___period(s), humans altered their habitats

• Hunter-gatherer

• Agricultural revolution

• Industrial revolution

• All of the above

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All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except

• Linguistics

• Biology and Earth science

• Social science

• Physics and chemistry

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In which country is the population likely to be increasing most rapidly?

• Kenya

• United States

• England

• Japan

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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

• Environmental science

• Earth science

• Social science

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During the agricultural revolution,

• Plants and animals were domesticated

• Fossil fuel use increased

• Human populations decreased due to disease

• Both A and C

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_____is a biodegradable material that becomes a pollutant if allowed to accumulate more rapidly than it can decompose.

• Plastic

• Mercury

• Newspaper

• Metal from junk cars

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

• Hunting of excess deer to maintain a healthy population size

• Intensive cultivation of farmland that exhausts soil nutrients

• Mining coal

• Increasing use of solar energy to generate electrical power

All of the following issues involve environmental science except

• Measuring smog levels in cities

• Asking people questions about the coast of various resources

• Studying the loss of plant and animal species

• Publishing the results of a study on fossil fuel depletion

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The "Tragedy of the Commons" describes the conflict between

• Developing and developed nations

• Farmers and industrialized society

• Individuals and society

• Canada and Mexico

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