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• clear-cutting
• selective-cutting

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What event lead to our current pattern of urbanization?

• Bubonic Pluage
• Industrial Revolution
• Green Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution

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What will most likely happen if the human population continues to grow at current rates?

• There will be fewer natural resources available for future generations.
• There will be an increase in nitrogen levels in the atmosphere. 
• There will be a decrease in water pollution. 
• There will be an increase in the number of strong hurricanes. 

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Why is MOST of the freshwater on Earth not available for our use?

• All freshwater on Earth is easily accessible for use.
• It is frozen in the icecaps and glaciers.
• It is surface water.
• It is underground.

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What is Earth's function?

• controls the distribution of minerals, rocks and soils and generates natural hazards that shape the land and impact humans
• a recycling planet powered by the flow of solar energy to support a network of life.
• sustains various life forms and plays an important role in ecosystems and regulating heat on earth.
• sustains life forms on the surface of the earth, absorbs and interacts with harmful  solar rays.It protects the earth from natural and human-caused space debris.

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The Tragedy of the Commons

• Thomas Malthus

• Garrett Hardin

• Paul Ehrlich

• Norman Borlaug

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What will most likely happen if the human population continues to grow at current rates?

• There will be fewer natural resources available for future generations.

• There will be an increase in nitrogen levels in the atmosphere.

• There will be a decrease in water pollution.

• There will be an increase in the number of strong hurricanes.

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Anything that is obtained from the environment to meet the needs and wants of human beings.

• Renewable resources

• Non-renewable resources

• Resources

• None of the above

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The study of environmental science primarily considers

• interactions among human systems and those found in Earth

• the effect of human systems

• abiotic factors that influence the state of our environment

• factors that affect global climate change

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What are some things that we use natural resources for?

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