
Understanding the Environment (Ch 1 Section 1)
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
Which statement best defines environmental science?
An interdisciplinary study of study environmental problems and human impacts on the environment.
A field that focuses on the theory and practice of government and politics at the local, state, national, and international levels.
The science that deals with the earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it.
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Ecology is the study of
plants and animals
environmental science
interactions between organisms and their environment
energy flow in ecosystems
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In which of the following situations would an environmental scientist need to gather most of his or her information from the field of chemistry?
in studying the connection between rapid population growth and resource destruction in abandoned cities of ancient cultures
in consulting home builders who are renovating homes to be more energy efficient
in analyzing how changes in global climate contributed to mass extinctions
in finding ways to reprocess used plastics to make new products
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is not a way that hunter-gatherers historically influenced the environment?
by clearing growths of trees with fire
by overhunting
by gathering in groups to live permanently in a small area
by spreading plants to new areas
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Tigris-Euphrates River basin collapsed, in part because the overworked soil became waterlogged and contaminated by salts. Which of the following influenced that collapse?
hunter-gatherers
the Agricultural Revolution
the Industrial Revolution
the Information Revolution
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following statements best describes why the Earth is sometimes compared to a spaceship?
The Earth is a closed system floating in the vastness of space.
Environmental problems on Earth affect the entire universe.
Humans can control natural forces beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
Only a limited number of people can live on Earth just as only a limited number of people can fit inside a spaceship.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If the human population continues to grow, all of the following could happen except increased
pollution.
biodiversity.
resource depletion.
human starvation.
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