APES Unit 1 Recap

Which of the following BEST defines Gross domestic product?

• the total value of everything produced by all the people and companies in the country
• a measure of the total output of a country divided it by the number of people in the country.
• an increase in a nation's output

Scientists estimate that we could eliminate about what percentage of our current waste?

• 55%
• 65%
• 75%
• 85%

An average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area is called

• Gross domestic product
• Net domestic product
• per capita ecological footprint
• per capita gross GNP

The per capita ecological footprint of U.S. citizen is about ____ times as much as an average citizen of China.

• 2
• 4
• 6
• 8

Research by social scientists suggests that it takes ____ percent of the population of a community, country, or the world to bring about major social change.

• 1-2%
• 5-10%
• 25-30%
• at least 75%

The atomic number is the number of

• electrons
• protons
• electrons and protons
• nuetrons

An atom or group of atoms with an abnormal number of electrons is called:

• an isotope
• an ion
• a boson
• a gluon

An atom or group of atoms with an abnormal number of neutrons is called:

• an isotope
• an ion
• a boson
• a gluon

An atom or group of atoms with an abnormal number of protons is called:

• an isotope
• an ion
• a boson
• Another element altogether

What can be defined as the ability to do work?

• photosynthetic
• energy
• hyperactivity
• hypoactivity