Ch. 1 Science and the Environment 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

All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except

• linguistics.

• biology and sciences.

• social sciences.

• physics and chemistry.

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

• Kenya

• Germany

• Australia

• Norway

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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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Why is the world’s loss of biodiversity a source of concern?

• Humans depend upon other organisms for food and oxygen.

• Species extinctions have been rare throughout history.

• Loss of biodiversity is not a concern because extinctions are common.

• Both (a) and (b)

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A focus of environmental science not studied in ecology is the

• interaction among living things.

• use of natural resources.

• influence of humans on the environment.

• Both (a) and (b)

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

• Plastic

• Mecury

• 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

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Which country is most likely to have either a stabilized or a slowly growing population?

• India

• Canada

• Mexico

• Pakistan

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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.