What is the environment? Mark all the options that are correct.

• Everything around us.

• Everything except nonliving things.

• The complex web of relationships that connect us.

• An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment.

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What are the goals of environmental science? Mark all the options that are correct.

• To learn how humans interact with animals.

• To learn how the environment affects humans.

• To learn how humans affect the environment.

• How to live more sustainably.

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These are the major fields of study related to Environmental Science. Only one option is correct.

• Biology

  Chemistry

  Archaeology

  Historical sciences

• Earth science

  Biology

  Geometry

  Humanities

• Biology

  Chemistry

  Earth science

  Humanities

• Humanities

  Chemistry

  Earth science

  Law

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The ability of the earth's various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely is called... (Only one option is correct.)

• Environmentalism

• Natural capital

• Ecology

• Sustainability

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The circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment thrrough organisms and back to the environment is called.. (Only one option is correct.)

• Solar capital

• Nutrient cycle

• Natural resource

• Natural capital

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GDP stands for... (Only one option is correct.)

• GRASS

  DOMESTIC

  PRODUCE

• GROSS

  DOMESTIC

  PRODUCT

• GREAT

  DYNAMIC

  PROCEDURE

• GRAND

  DIVERSE

  POTENTIAL

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Which of the following are renewable resources? (More than one option is possible.)

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Which of the previous options is considered a perpetual resource? (Only one option is possible.)

• Solar energy

• Wind energy

• Oil energy

• Water energy

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Which kind of resources exist in a fixed quantity, or stock, in the earth's crust? (Only one option is correct.)

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

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Ecological deficit means... (Only one option is correct.)

• ...that the ecological footprint is smaller than a country's biological capacity.

• ...that the per capita ecological footprint is smaller than a country's biological capacity.

• ...that the biological capacity of a country is equivalent to the ecological footprint of that country.

• ...that the biological capacity of a country is smaller than its ecological footprint.

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