E.S. Unit 1 Review

Which of the following are considered part of the environment?

• forests

• people

• buildings

• all of these

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

• renewable

• nonrenewable

• ecological

• sustainable

Results published in __________ are the most respected in science because they have passed through a rigorous evaluation process involving feedback from multiple sources.

• news magazines

• peer-reviewed journals

• web journals

• e-books

A cost-benefit analysis is a(n)

• study of the factors that influence decisions of buyers and sellers

• economy in which the government decides what is made

• equilibrium between a product's supply and its demand

• comparison between what is sacrificed and gained by a specific action

In making environmental policies, government interacts with

• organizations

• businesses

• citizens

• all of these

Most major laws in modern U.S. environmental policy were enacted in the

• 1960s and 1970s

• 1980s and 1990s

• years between 2000–2005

• 1950s and 1960s

A power company is given free land by the government to reduce the cost of providing wind-generated electricity to rural residents. This is an example of a

• command-and-control approach

• cap-and-trade system

• subsidy

• tax incentive

Which sphere of Earth is made of all the rock above and below Earth's surface?

• lithosphere

• geosphere

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

Which sphere are humans a part of?

• geosphere

• hydrosphere

• biosphere

• atmosphere

Matter that organisms require for their life processes are called

• legumes

• decomposers

• fertilizers

• nutrients