Intro to Environmental Science Review

The difference between environmental science and environmentalism is ___.

• environmental science studies how the natural world works.

• environmentalism studies how the natural world works

• environmental science is a social movement to protect the natural world

• environmentalism is unbiased

Environmental science is the study of ___.

• how the natural world works

• how the environment affects humans

• how humans affect the environment

• all of these choices

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True or false: environmentalism is a social movement dedicated to understanding how the natural world works.

• True

• False- it is a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from harmful changes due to human activity

• False- it is a social movement dedicated to studying how the environment affects humanity

• False- it is a social movement dedicated to studying how humanity affects the environment

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

• Atmosphere

• Water Supply

• Environment

• Soil

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Environmental science applies to all of the following EXCEPT...

• How the natural world works

• How much greenhouse gas is produced

• How our environment affects us

• How we affect our environment

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Sustainability is defined as…

• Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

• Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

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

• Not consuming any resources at all.

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Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field of study. This means that…

• It is limited to only one branch of science; ecology.

• Each environmental issue is specific to only one type of science.

• Multiple branches of science only (biology, chemistry, etc) are covered.

• Many science and non-science fields of study, such as economics and politics, are included.

An average person from _______________ would be expected to have a higher ecological footprint than the other two countries.

• Country "A"

• Country "B"

• Country "C"

• None of the above; They would have roughly equal ecological footprints.

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One of the three major environmental problems is resource depletion. Which is a major contributing factor to this problem?

• Developing countries have a much higher rate of resource consumption than others.

• Developed countries have a much higher rate of resource consumption than others.

• The human population overall is too small.

• Each country uses approximately the same amount of resources.

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Trees are considered ________________ resources because they will eventually regrow, given enough time.

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Inexhaustible

• Recyclable

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