From Hunting to Farming to Industry

Because environmental science encompasses so many different fields of study, it is said to be a(n) ____________ science.

• Ecological

• Human

• Social

• Interdisciplinary

Which period in human history occurred prior to the others listed below.

• hunter-gatherer

• Industrial Revolution

• agricultural revolution

• post- Industrial Revolution

To survive hunter-gatherers changed their environment by

• a. burning the prairies to prevent trees from growing.

• b. spreading plants to areas beyond where they originally grew.

• c. Both (a) and (b)

• d. Neither (a) nor (b)

During the agricultural revolution,

• a. plants and animals were domesticated.

• b. fossil fuel use increased.

• c. human populations decreased due to disease.

• d. Both (a) and (c)

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

• a. over hunting of large mammals

• b. shift to the use of fossil fuels

• c. imrpovement in quality of life

• d. growth of cities