WorksheetsReading Environmental Science History
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
The branch of philosophy that deals with good, bad, right, and wrong is called
logic.
ethics.
science.
culture.
Which of the following is the primary difference between a theory and a hypothesis?
A theory deals only with the natural world, a hypothesis does not.
B.
A theory is tested, a hypothesis is not.
A theory is not tested, a hypothesis is.
A theory is broader than a hypothesis, dealing with a wider range of situations and observations.
Environmentalism is the study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.
True
False
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, about 10,000 years ago, humans began planting crops and domesticating animals.
True
False
There is historical evidence that civilizations can crumble when pressures from population and consumption overwhelm resource availability. Indeed, many great civilizations have fallen after depleting resources from their environments, and each has left devastated landscapes in its wake. Plato wrote of the deforestation and environmental degradation accompanying ancient Greek cities, for example. Archaeologists, historians, and paleoecologists study past societies and landscapes and have accumulated evidence of environmental collapse, from the Greek and Roman empires to the Maya, the Anasazi, and other civilizations of the New World. Scientist and author Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, Collapse, formulated sets of reasons why civilizations succeed and persist, or fail and collapse. Success and persistence, it turns out, depend largely on how societies interact with their environments.From the passage, it is possible to infer that the Anasazi were an ancient civilization that
collapsed after the Greek Empire.
lived in the New World.
were part of the Roman Empire.
persisted and live in the New World today.
Read the following selection and answer the questions that follow.There is historical evidence that civilizations can crumble when pressures from population and consumption overwhelm resource availability. Indeed, many great civilizations have fallen after depleting resources from their environments, and each has left devastated landscapes in its wake. Plato wrote of the deforestation and environmental degradation accompanying ancient Greek cities, for example. Archaeologists, historians, and paleoecologists study past societies and landscapes and have accumulated evidence of environmental collapse, from the Greek and Roman empires to the Maya, the Anasazi, and other civilizations of the New World. Scientist and author Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, Collapse, formulated sets of reasons why civilizations succeed and persist, or fail and collapse. Success and persistence, it turns out, depend largely on how societies interact with their environments.Which of the following would be the BEST title for this passage?
"The Mayan Civilization"
"Paleoecology Today"
"The Danger of Depleting Resources"
"Plato's Warning"
Read the following selection and answer the questions that follow.There is historical evidence that civilizations can crumble when pressures from population and consumption overwhelm resource availability. Indeed, many great civilizations have fallen after depleting resources from their environments, and each has left devastated landscapes in its wake. Plato wrote of the deforestation and environmental degradation accompanying ancient Greek cities, for example. Archaeologists, historians, and paleoecologists study past societies and landscapes and have accumulated evidence of environmental collapse, from the Greek and Roman empires to the Maya, the Anasazi, and other civilizations of the New World. Scientist and author Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, Collapse, formulated sets of reasons why civilizations succeed and persist, or fail and collapse. Success and persistence, it turns out, depend largely on how societies interact with their environments.Which of the following is a synonym (word with a similar definition) for the word degradation?
health
ruin
gradation
evaluation
Which of the following is a synonym for the word degradation.
Ruin
Gradation
Evaluation
Health
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
Tragedy of the Commons refers to what environmental challenge?
protecting shared resources
curbing overpopulation
perserving biodiversity
preventing pollution
The variety of genetic variation, variety of
species in a community, or a variety of
communities in an ecosystem
biodiversity
tragedy of the commons
sustainability
agricultural revolution
The environment includes
only living things
only nonliving things
only humans
all living and nonliving things
Information gathered from experiments
data
hypothesis
conclusion
research
What are materials and energy found naturally that we can use to survive? Both renewable and non-renewable
Greenhouse effect
Renewable resources
Natural resources
Non-Renewable resources
The variety of organisms in an area, by species, genes, populations, and communities is called ______________.
Sustainability
Biodiversity
Ecology
Fossil fuels
The study of how the environment and humans affect one another is called ___________________.
Environmental Science
Environmental ethics
Environment
Ecology
