Environmental Science

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Review key terms and animals that

1 .

agriculture -

is the practice of growing ,


breeding
caring For plants ,
and

are used For Food clothes houses transport , etc


, , ,
.

2. natural resource -
are either renewable or nonrenewable .

3 . toxic chemicals -

released into the environment cause pollution .

4 .

ecological footprint
-

the productive area needed to


support one person
in a particular country .

5 environmental science
.

Sustainability -
a
goal in .

Complete the 6 the industrial revolution


.
was characterized by a shift from human and animal power
sentence to fossil fuels .

7. resources that can theoretically last Forever are called renewable resources .

8. biodiversity is a term that describes the number and variety of species that live in an

area .

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Main ideas 10 An important effect that societies may have had environment
.

hunter-gatherer on

was . . .

b) extinction

11 . an important effect of the agricultural revolution was

d) all of the above

12 . which of the
Following does NOT describe an effect of industrial revolution ?
b) the amount of land and labor needed to produce food increase .

13 pollutants that not broken down by natural


.
are
processes are

b) non degradable

all of the
14 .

following are renewable resources except


b) minerals

his essay Tragedy


"
IS The
"
.
in of the Commons one factor that Garrett Hardin
, ,

Failed to consider was .


. .

C) the social nature of humans .

16 .
the term used to describe the productive area of Earth needed to support the

lifestyle of one
person in a particular country is called
b) ecological footprint .
Short Answer 17 .

geology may be involved in this science because scientists might use geology to find

out how different rock types might affect pollution Chemistry might be involved
.

in this science to identify how different chemicals interact in the environmental .

18 Pollutants
.
can cause environmentalproblems if they accumulate in the environment

and they do not degrade quickly enough .

19 the Earth 's resources shared by everyone , if societies do not


.
are use resources
responsibly ,

the resources become depleted or polluted .

20 .
in order to improve one 's standards of living ,
it requires certain materials or

energy to do so which could be an environmental concern .

21 .
in order to evaluate the claims made on a website that discusses environmental issues

you could look at the sources for the information the references
, provided ,
the presentation

of data , or the credentials of such author

22 species natural because the environment


. a can be a resource a species is part of ,

but if consumed in a big amount it may become extinct and therefore nonrenewable

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