CH 1 & 2 Review - Environmental

What is made up of all of the living and nonliving things on Earth?

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

• Environment

• Earth

Environmental Science applies to which of the following?

• How we affect the environment

• How the environment affects us

• How humans can make more things

• How the natural world works

Which social movement is dedicated to protecting the natural world?

• Environmental Ethics

• Environmental Science

• Environmental Economics

• Environmentalism

Sustainability is...

• Not using resources at all.

• The ability to meet the current demand without depleting the future supply.

• Rapidly consuming to meet current demand without thought of the future.

• Not possible.

Environmental science is interdisciplinary, this means

• It is restricted to one branch of science only.

• It has nothing to do with science.

• Many branches of science and other non-science disciplines, such as economics and politics, play a role.

• Environmental issues are specific to one branch of science only.

Trees are considered _______________________ resources because they will grow back in time.

• Renewable

• Exhaustible

• Nonrenewable

• Limited

Which of the following is an example of The Tragedy of the Commons?

• A farmer cutting down trees to plant crops.

• Nations overusing oil reserves in international waters leading to resource depletion.

• A country declaring war on another country.

• A farmer overplanting his field and having a poor crop harvest.

Which of the following types of environmental ethics is concerned with human welfare above all else?

• Biocentric

• Anthropocentric

• Ecocentric

• None of the above

A natural resource that is formed more slowly than it is used is called

• Renewable

• Exhaustible

• Nonrenewable

• Limited

Select the nonrenewable resources from the following list:

• Coal

• Crude Oil

• Sunlight

• Wind