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Which of the following is a renewable resource that is in danger of being used up faster than it can replace itself?

• Soil
• Groundwater
• Tropical Rain Forests
• All choices are correct

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Why do we depend on fossil fuels? 

• Electricity, transportation, and heating
• Food
• Sunlight
• Growing, building muscle, calcium

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The Tragedy of the Commons

• Thomas Malthus

• Garrett Hardin

• Paul Ehrlich

• Norman Borlaug

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All of the surroundings that affect living things.

• environment

• observation

• inference

• natural resources

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Which resource do people of the US consume the most?

• Uranium

• Propane

• Petroleum

• Coal

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What percent of Earth's freshwater is available for humans to use?

• 3

• less than 1

• 97

• 10

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Overuse of the ____ aquifer could cause another soil catastrophe in the mid-west.

• Ogallala

• surface

• ocean

• glacial

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One of the three major environmental problems is resource depletion. Which is a major contributing factor to this problem?

• Developing countries have a much higher rate of resource consumption than others.

• Developed countries have a much higher rate of resource consumption than others.

• The human population overall is too small.

• Each country uses approximately the same amount of resources.

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As the human population grows, resources

• decrease

• increase

• stay the same

• increase, then decrease

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In the story of Easter Island, what was considered the commons?

• the statues

• the ocean

• the trees

• the Europeans

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