Env Sci Intro Quiz 1&2

What is Environmental Science?

• The environment consists of all the living and non-living things that interact with organisms

• the study of ecosystems, and how many abiotic factors are in certain ecosystems

• Study of natural systems and how humans both affect and are affected by those systems

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Ecology is ....

• the study of rocks and their importance in creating habitats

• the study of the interactions between organisms and their environment

• the problems posed by env scientists must be approached with knowledge of multiple academic disciplines

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Environmental Science is interdisciplinary

• True

• False

Interdisciplinary means that env sci requires understanding which of the following

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Geology

• Agriculture

• All of the above

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Environmentalism is

• social and political movement that advocates protecting the natural world from the negative effects of human activity

• resources that are constantly replenished and essentially available

• when things form so slowly that once they are used up, they are essentially gone

• resources are used up no faster than they can be replenished

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Sustainability is

• began around 10,000 years ago and marked the transition to a more settled agricultural lifestyle

• limiting human population to save the environment

• means that resources are used up no faster than they can be replenished

• hypothetical scenario where commonly held resources are inevitably degraded because the benefit of exploitation is to a few while the costs are shared

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Tragedy of the Commons

• A situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the resource through their collective action
• A play written by William Shakespeare
• A historical event that occurred in the Middle Ages
• A theory in economics about the inefficiency of market systems

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What is NOT one benefit of an industrialized lifestyle?

• Increased access to healthcare
• Decreased pollution
• Increased connection with nature
• Decreased reliance on technology

The information gathered through scientific inquiry is ___________ and neutral by nature

• Objective

• Subjective

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Subjective means..

• Objective
• Based on personal feelings
• Unbiased
• Impersonal