Understanding Our Environment

What did hunter-gatherers do to alter the environment?

• Introduce new plants to new regions

• Over-hunt large mammals

• Burn prairie to maintain grassland

• All options are correct

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Because Environmental Science encompasses so many different fields of study, it is said to be a(n) ________________ science.

• Ecological

• Interdisciplinary

• Social

• Human

Ecology is the study of:

• Plants and animals

• Environmental Science

• Interactions between organisms and their environment

• Energy flow in ecosystems

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Which major changes in human society and the environment occurred during the Industrial Revolution?

• People lived in small tribes; many mammals went extinct

• Domesticated plants were altered; forest was replaced with farmland

• Fossil fuel consumption, technological efficiency, and environmental pollution increased

• Common grazing areas were replaced with closed fields

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Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" essay addressed the conflicts associated with which environmental challenge?

• Preventing pollution

• Preserving biodiversity

• Curbing overpopulation

• Protecting shared resources

What represents Earth's "modern commons"?

• Shared natural resources

• Protected grasslands

• Threatened species

• Unpolluted habitats

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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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If the human population continues to grow, all of the following could occur EXCEPT INCREASED

• Pollution

• Biodiversity

• Resource depletion

• Human starvation

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The practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals used for a variety of purposes

• Loss of biodiversity

• Supply and demand

• Agriculture

• Ecology

Conflict between short-term interests of individuals and long-term welfare of society

• Developed nation

• Supply and demand

• "Tragedy of the Commons"

• Ecology

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