Chapter 1

The environment is

• all living things we interact with

• all nonliving things we interact with

• all living and nonliving things we interact with

• only the things we do not interact with

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Environmental Science studies

• how humans interact with living things

• how humans interact with nonliving things

• how humans interact with living & nonliving things

• how living things interact with nonliving things

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What is an environmental indicator?

• It indicates the past state of the environment

• it indicates the current state of the environment

• it indicates the future state of the environment

• it indicates the current economic state of the environment

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What is sustainability?

• The ability to exploit the environment.

• The ability to use the environment

• The ability to reuse the environment

• The ability to maintain and keep in existence the environment

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What is biodiversity?

• The diverseness of biology

• The diversity of genetic morphology

• The variety of life on Earth

• The variety of nonlife on Earth

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Which of the following is a greenhouse gas?

• oxygen gas

• nitrogen gas

• argon gas

• water vapor

What is anthropogenic?

• originating from nonhuman acitvity

• originating from human activity

• originating from the Anthropocenic

• originating from the Anthropogons

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What is Sustainable Development?

• Development that meets the needs of the future by compromising the present.

• Development that does not meet the needs of the future by not compromising the present

• Development that meets the needs of the present by compromising the future

• Development that meets the needs of the present by not compromising the future

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What is the ecosystem?

• a biological community

• a habitat of interacting organisms

• interacting organisms and their physical environment

• The physical environment

Which of the following is NOT an ecosystem service?

• Clean water

• agricultural crops

• fisheries

• pollution

• timber

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