Reading Environmental Science History

A person holding a sign during a protest against cutting down trees in a forest would be considered a(n) __________

• environmentalist
• ecological footprint
• peer reviewer
• environmental scienctist

From where do producers get their energy?

• the ground
• other animals
• decomposers
• the sun

The ____________________ includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact.

• Economy
• Ecosystem
• Environment
• Ecological

Which of the following is an example of a nonrenewable natural resource?

• wind energy
• sunlight
• natural gas
• geothermal energy

The ____________________ includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact.

• Economy
• Ecosystem
• Environment
• Ecological

The branch of philosophy that deals with good, bad, right, and wrong is called

• logic.

• ethics.

• science.

• culture.

Which of the following is the primary difference between a theory and a hypothesis?

• A theory deals only with the natural world, a hypothesis does not.

  B.

• A theory is tested, a hypothesis is not.

• A theory is not tested, a hypothesis is.

• A theory is broader than a hypothesis, dealing with a wider range of situations and observations.

Environmentalism is the study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.

• True

• False

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, about 10,000 years ago, humans began planting crops and domesticating animals.

• True

• False

There is historical evidence that civilizations can crumble when pressures from population and consumption overwhelm resource availability. Indeed, many great civilizations have fallen after depleting resources from their environments, and each has left devastated landscapes in its wake. Plato wrote of the deforestation and environmental degradation accompanying ancient Greek cities, for example. Archaeologists, historians, and paleoecologists study past societies and landscapes and have accumulated evidence of environmental collapse, from the Greek and Roman empires to the Maya, the Anasazi, and other civilizations of the New World. Scientist and author Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, Collapse, formulated sets of reasons why civilizations succeed and persist, or fail and collapse. Success and persistence, it turns out, depend largely on how societies interact with their environments.From the passage, it is possible to infer that the Anasazi were an ancient civilization that

• collapsed after the Greek Empire.

• lived in the New World.

• were part of the Roman Empire.

• persisted and live in the New World today.