Intro to Environmental Science (Unit 1)

An ecological footprint is a measurement of

• the mark a person’s shoe makes in soft earth.

• the number of animals a person has killed.

• the amount of land and ocean area needed to support a person's lifestyle.

• the number of trees people cut down.

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As the human population grows, what happens to the amount resources needed to support the growing population?

• they decrease

• they increase

• stay the same

• first they increase, then they decrease

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Which of these is an example of a renewable resource?

• Oil

• Sunlight

• Coal

• Fossil Fuels

What are the materials that come from nature and are needed by humans need to survive?

• natural resources

• environmental resources

• nonrenewable resources

• none of these

True or False? Humans affect the environment but the environment does NOT affect us.

• True

• False

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The environment contains

• only living things

• only non-living things

• both living and non-living things.

• only man-made things.

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Which one of the following is not one of the three main categories that is used to classify most environmental problems?

• Pollution

• Resource Depletion

• Extinction

• Ozone Depletion

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Which of the following is an example of a nonrenewable resource?

• Trees

• Sun

• Coal

• Wind

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Wind is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

What is the definition of an ecological footprint?

• The footprint of an ecologist

• A measure of the impact living things have on the environment.

• A kind of plant that grows in the rainforest that looks like a footprint.

• A measure of the impact humans have on the environment.

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