Ch 1-5 Environmental Exam Review Spring 2022

_________ science is the interdisciplinary field that includes both scientific and social aspects of human impact on the world 

• Earth
• Environmental
• Biological
• Physical

A natural resource that is naturally formed much more slowly than we use it is called

• sustainable
• ecological
• nonrenewable
• renewable

1. Sustainability is defined as…

• Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

• Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

• Maintaining a rate of resource consumption that will allow the population to survive indefinitely.

• Not consuming any resources at all.

What major entity of the U.S. government has the chief responsibility for overseeing environmental regulations?

• Environmental Impact Statement
• Environmental Protection Agency
• National Park Service
• Supreme Court

Nonrenewable energy resources such as coal, natural gas and oil.

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

• sustainable

• environmentalism

• environmental science

A measure of the environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of land and water needed for consumption and waste disposal.

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

• sustainable

• environmentalism

• environmental science

A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world.

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

• sustainable

• environmentalism

• environmental science

A practice that can continue at the same rate into the foreseeable future.

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

• sustainable

• environmentalism

• environmental science

The study of how the natural world works and our interactions with it.

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

• sustainable

• environmentalism

• environmental science

How has resource consumption changed over the last several hundred years?

• increased significantly

• increased a little bit

• decreased significantly

• decreased a little bit