Intro to Environmental Science

The environment includes

• all living and nonliving things

• living things only

• nonliving things only

• the stuff outside your house

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Which of these is NOT a RENEWABLE resource?

• coal

• sunlight

• trees

• water

Sustainable means

• using a resource until it's all gone

• using a resource at a rate that it can be replenished

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The AGRICULTURAL revolution lead to all of the following EXCEPT

• humans growing their own food source (farming)

• humans settling in one area & building communites

• worker's rights for factory workers

• humans altering the land to grow crops & raise livestock

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In the 18th century, advancements in technology lead to factories that employed many people. This was known as

• the Tragedy of the Commons

• The Agricultural Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution

• Cap-and-trade incentives

The ecological footprint measures

• a person's demand on global resources

• how much water a wetland can filter

• the money value of a stand of pine trees

• a limit on the number of fish that a person can harvest

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If a resource is unregulated then every individual will take as much as they can, eventually depleting the resource. This is known as

• the ecological footprint

• peer review

• the scientific method

• the Tragedy of the Commons

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The peer reivew process is used to

• make sure that individuals use all natural resources responsibly

• analyze scientific experiments & papers before they are published

• complete a cost-benefit analysis of a new development

• provide incentives to companies who use clean energy

Ethics refers to

• using moral principles to make decisions

• following the scientific method in a prescribed manner

• establishing a scientific theory based on evidence

• studying supply and demand

The process of deciding whether the gain brought by a resource is worth cost is known as

• the Tragedy of the Commons

• a cost-benefit analysis

• cap-and-trade regulations

• supply & demand

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