Chapter 1 Environmental Science Review

Which of the following are considered part of the environment?

• forest
• people
• buildings
• all of these

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1. Sustainability is defined as…

• Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

• Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

• Maintaining a rate of resource consumption that will allow the population to survive indefinitely.

• Not consuming any resources at all.

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An average person from _______________ would be expected to have a higher ecological footprint than the other two countries.

• Country "A"

• Country "B"

• Country "C"

• None of the above; They would have roughly equal ecological footprints.

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Which example best illustrates the point behind the Tragedy of the Commons essay?

• Various nations overfishing in international waters, leading to a collapse of fish stocks.

• A property owner clear-cutting all of the trees on his land to sell for timber

• A farmer that overplants his fields one year, leading to a poor harvest

• One country declaring war on another

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Which is a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from human actions

• Environmental Science

• Environmental Policy

• Environmental Ethics

• Environmentalism

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A testable explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested. 

• data
• theory
• hypothesis
• fact

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What is the first step in the scientific method?

• Ask a question
• Conclusion
• No Horse Play
• Observe

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What type of investigation does this represent?

• model

• experimentation

• observation

• recording

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The branch of philosophy that deals with good, bad, right, and wrong is called.

• logic
• ethics
• science
• culture

The environment contains:

• living things (biotic) only
• Nonliving things (abiotic) only
• Both living and nonliving things
• only artificial things

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