CHAPTER 1 TEST

What describes conflicts associated with sharing resources?

• hunter-gatherer period
• “The Tragedy of the Commons"
• developing country
• habitat destruction

In what time period did society shift to using fossil fuels?

• hunter-gatherer period
• “The Tragedy of the Commons"
• Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution

What is an undesire change in air, water, or soil?

• resource depletion
• ecology
• pollution
• sustainability

Which branch of science is concerned with the study of living things and their interaction with their nonliving environment?

• physics
• social sciences
• chemistry
• ecology

Which type of countries are characterized by high personal wealth, low growth population, and high levels of consumption

• developed countries
• interdependent countries
• developing countries
• unsustainable countries

What term is used to describe when natural materials are formed at a much slower rate than they are depleted?

• nonbiodegradable
• biodegradable
• renewable
• nonrenewable

In what time period were plants and animals domesticated and human populations grew?

• hunter-gatherer period
• “The Tragedy of the Commons"
• Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution

In which time period did humans live in tribe and use fires to maintain the prairie?

• hunter-gatherer period
• “The Tragedy of the Commons"
• Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution

The three major categories of environmental problems are: loss of biodiversity, pollution, and

• global warming
• future ice ages
• resource depletion
• traffic incidents

Using economic considerations of resource use, the law of supply and demand describes the

• availability of abundant resources
• reduced demand resulting from lack of available resources.
• worth of nonrenewable resources.
• relationship between the availability and the worth of resources.