Unit 1 Intro to Environmental Science Quiz

What is the study of ecology as well as focusing on how humans affect the environment and ways to address environmental problems?

• Renewable natural resources

• Environmental Science

• Ecology

• Environmental activism

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

What is a renewable natural resource?

• Used at a sustainable rate

• Found somewhere on the continuum

• Take a long time to replenish

• Naturally replenished over short periods of time

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What major event led to humans shifting from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to live in communities, raise livestock and plant crops?

• Ecological footprint

• Environmental Science

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Agricultural Revolution

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-7

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

What is the term used to describe the logical way of thinking about the world?

• Inductive Reasoning

• Science

• Scientific Method

• Deductive Reasoning

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NGSS.HS-PS2-1

What type of data includes descriptions and words?

• Controlled data

• Quantitative data

• Scientific data

• Qualitative data

What is the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles?

• Ecosystem services

• Supply and demand

• Economics

• Ethics

What type of environmental policy focuses on the threat of punishment if rules are not followed?

• Environmental activism

• Regulations

• Cap-and-trade

• Incentives

What is the encouragement of an environmentally friendly activity through subsidies or tax breaks?

• Regulations

• Cap-and-trade

• Economics

• Incentives

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

What is the total amount of a pollutant limited in cap-and-trade policies?

• Trade

• Incentive

• Regulation

• Emissions

What are the goods that humans use directly from the ecosystem called?

• Provisioning

• Regulating

• Cultural

• Supporting