Intro to environmental science

What is the difference between Ecology and Environmental Science?

• Ecology is the study of an organism and environmental science does not study any organisms

• Ecology studies nature; environmental science studies an organism only

• Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with their environments.; and environmental science is the study of how the natural world works, and how humans and the environment affect each other.

• None of these answers are correct

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Sustainability is defined as…

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

• Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

• Not consuming any resources at all.

• Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

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What is made up of all the living and nonliving things which an organism interacts with?

• Soil

• Environment

• Environmental Ethics

• Environmental Science

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

• sustainable

• ecological

• renewable

• non-renewable

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• Water

• Wind

• Coal

• Sunlight

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As the human population grows, resources

• increase

• decrease

• increase, then decrease

• stay the same

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Which one is a completely renewable resource?

• Gas

• Sunlight

• Coal

• Oil

Any materials or energy from nature that humans need to survive.

• Inference

• Environment

• Natural Resource

• Nonrenewable resource

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

• True

• False

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The environment contains

• both biotic and abiotic things.

• biotic organisms.

• abiotic things.

• none of the above

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