Ch 1

Question 1

What is ecology?

Answer 1

The study of species and their interconnection in the environment

Question 2

What is environmental science?

Answer 2

The study of the earth and our interactions with it to deal with our problems

Question 3

How do beavers severely interfere with the environment?

Answer 3

Dams

Question 4

How do we live off of interest in the envirpent?

Answer 4

As we take resources, the yields decrease

Question 5

What is carrying capacity?

Answer 5

The amount of people the earth can hold. The number one issue is food. We’ve exceeded the capacity of earth

Question 6

When did we exceed the carrying capacity?

Answer 6

The agricultural revolution

Question 7

Why did we used to travel in tribes of 30-40?

Answer 7

It was the only feasible way because of the carrying capacity

Question 8

How long would we last if we went back to a hunting/gathering system?

Answer 8

1 week

Question 9

Why is population growth expected to slow?

Answer 9

More people are having less kids because of the empowerment of women

Question 10

How did the industrial revolution raise population?

Answer 10

The growth of technology raised the life expectancy and boosted the population

Question 11

What is GNP?

Answer 11

Gross nation product

Question 12

What is GDP?

Answer 12

Gross domestic product.. Our inside value of all goods and services

Question 13

What is the GWP?

Answer 13

Gross word product.. GDP for the world

Question 14

What is per capita GNP?

Answer 14

The average gnp

Question 15

What is good about developed nations?

Answer 15

Less pollution, more goods/less resources, more food, higher life expectancy

Question 16

What is bad about less developed nations!

Answer 16

Life expectancy and pollution lag, unsustainable resource use, the population competes with wildlife, self inflicted climate change

Question 17

How does economics influence everything?

Answer 17

It is interconnected in the world

Question 18

How has the Internet influenced interconnection?

Answer 18

Communication is easier and there is nowhere left to wxplore

Question 19

How has interconnection influenced the environment?

Answer 19

Species and their diseases are being transported

Question 20

What is perpetual energy?

Answer 20

Constant renewable like solar and wind

Question 21

What is renewable energy?

Answer 21

Stuff that is replenished somewhat rapidly like trees, soil, and fresh air

Question 22

What are nonrenewable resources?

Answer 22

Fossil fuels, metals, and minerals

Question 23

What is a sustainable yield?

Answer 23

The highest rate at which a resource can be used without reducing its available supply

Question 24

What is environmental degradation?

Answer 24

Exceeding the sustainable yeild

Question 25

What is the idea behind the tragedy of the commons?

Answer 25

If I don't use it, somebody else will

Question 26

What is succession?

Answer 26

The growth process from rocks to moss to soil to shrubs and so on

Question 27

What is the debate with free access resources?

Answer 27

Should we sell the land or lease it? We go with sell because they take better care of it

Question 28

What are the 2 types of pollution?

Answer 28

Anthropogenic and natural

Question 29

What are the pollution sources?

Answer 29

Point and nonpoint. Nonpoint is more of an issue today because of regulations

Question 30

What did the 1972 clean water act do?

Answer 30

Banned point source pollution and no more DDT/dioxine

Question 31

What is input control?

Answer 31

Preventing pollution by banning pollutant production. This is the best meghod

Question 32

What is cleanup/output control?

Answer 32

Diluting pollution

Question 33

What impact do organic pollutants have?

Answer 33

More of an immediate impact but they go away faster

Question 34

What are the environmental and resource problems?

Answer 34

Rapid population growth, unsustainable resource use, poverty, not including environmental costs in goods, simplifying things with too knowledge

Question 35

What is environmental wisdom?

Answer 35

Nature is in charge, resources are limited, development is bad, we need to learn how the earth interacts with nature

Question 36

What is planetary management?

Answer 36

We are in charge, there is always more of something, benefit the economy, we manage earth for our benefit

Question 37

What is the human problem in managing the environment?

Answer 37

We need to link social, economic, and environmental problems to find a sustainable solution.