Introduction to Environmental Science

What is the difference between Ecology and Environmental Science?

• 1)Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with their environments.; and environmental science is the study of how the natural world works, and how humans and the environment affect each other.

• 2)Ecology studies nature; environmental science studies an organism only

• 3)Ecology is the study of an organism and environmental science does not study any organisms

• 4)None of these answers are correct

Sustainability is defined as…

• 1) Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

• 2) Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

• 3) Maintaining a rate of resource consumption that will allow the population to survive indefinitely.

• 4) Not consuming any resources at all.

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What is made up of all the living and nonliving things which an organism interacts with?

• 1) Atmosphere

• 2) Water Supply

• 3) Environment

• 4) Soil

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Which is a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from human actions

• 1) Environmental Science

• 2) Environmental Policy

• 3) Environmental Ethics

• 4) Environmentalism

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A natural resource that is naturally formed much more slowly than we use it is called

• 1) renewable

• 2) ecological

• 3) non-renewable

• 4) sustainable

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• 1) Wind

• 2) Sunlight

• 3) Water

• 4) Coal

As the human population grows, resources

• 1) decrease

• 2) increase

• 3) stay the same

• 4) increase, then decrease

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Which one is a completely renewable resource?

• 1) Oil

• 2) Sunlight

• 3) Coal

• 4) Fresh water

Any materials or energy from nature that humans need to survive.

• natural resource

• environment

• nonrenewable resource

• inference

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True or False? Humans affect the environment but the environment does NOT affect us.

• True

• False

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