Intro

Question 1

Population Density

Answer 1

measurement of population per unit or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density

Question 2

World population

Answer 2

Around 9 billion

Question 3

Biosphere

Answer 3

the global ecological system integrating all living organisms and their relationships

Question 4

Biosphere and CO2

Answer 4

important reservoir in the carbon cycle and has a very significant impact of climate through release and removal of CO2, from the atmosphere.

Question 5

Carbon Cycle Resevoirs

Answer 5

1. Atmosphere
2. Land-living animals and plants or their by-products
3. Oceans, including animals and plants living there
4. Sediments, including in fossil fuels

Question 6

Carbon Cycle

Answer 6

The movement of carbon through biological, atmosphere, chemical and geological.

Question 7

Sustainability

Answer 7

How biological systems remain diverse and productive

Question 8

Attributes of Sustainable Economy

Answer 8

Energy policies that do not pollute the atmosphere

Finding cleaner renewable energy: windmills

Question 9

Path to Sustainable Economy

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• Develop effective population control.
• Better education.
• Restructured energy programs.
• Economic planning and tax structure that encourages population control and wise resource use.
• Implement changes to help maintain a quality local, regional and global environment.
• Commitment of people

Question 10

Gaia Hypothesis

Answer 10

over the history of life on earth, life has profoundly changed the global environment and the chances for the continuation of life. According to the ability for life on earth is going down, but human population is going up.

Question 11

What is more important: quality of life of current living people or quality of life of future generations?

Answer 11

Open ended

Question 12

Accuracy

Answer 12

Is it true

Question 13

Precision

Answer 13

Can this statement be more specific, detailed

Question 14

Relevance

Answer 14

How is the statement connected to the problems

Question 15

Depth

Answer 15

Are humans ready to deal with complexity?

Question 16

How do you evaluate information

Answer 16

• Currency: What is the publication date of these resources?
• Authority: Who is the author and publisher?
• Validity/Accuracy: Is the info accurate or valid?
• Audience: Who was the resource written for?
• Point of view (bias): What is the resources point of view?

Question 17

What is science concerned with?

Answer 17

disprovability- is there a method to test or disprove it

Question 18

Basic Assumptions of Science

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• Knowledge is superior to ignorance.
• Events in nature follow an orderly, consistent, and knowable patterns.
• All explainable phenomena have natural causes. The scientific approach doesn’t include religious, spiritualistic, and magical explanations.
• Nothing is self evident. Knowledge is only derived rom empirical acquisitions’

Question 19

Scientific Method

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• Steps: Observations. Formulation of hypothesis to explain the phenomenon. Evaluate and experiment tests. Get new knowledge

Question 20

Theory vs. Hypothesis

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Theory is a hypothesis that has been confirmed through repeated tests
Hypothesis is a proposed explanation

Question 21

Why was fire first used

Answer 21

Tanzanians used it to clear forests

Question 22

Helocene period

Answer 22

start of warm period and melt water pulse that increases sea level 20 m

Question 23

Bering Land Bridge

Answer 23

How the native americans got over

Question 24

What is the thermal maximum

Answer 24

its the warmest period in the past 12500 years

Question 25

Cloaca Maxima

Answer 25

Big sewer and aqueducts in Rome

Question 26

Thucydided

Answer 26

fought a war to protect valuable timber lands in northern Greece.

Question 27

Who was the first country in the world to have nature reserve and sanctuary.

Answer 27

Sri Lanka

Question 28

Pliny the Elder

Answer 28

wrote 39 books 20,000 topics in science, ag, mining, environmental of animals; discounted weir wolf; mining safety in zinc mines.

Question 29

Who promoted vegetarianism in 100 AD

Answer 29

Plutarch

Question 30

Volcanic Winter

Answer 30

most severe and protracted episodes od cooling in the last 2,000 years; extensive atmospheric dust, seemed like sun eclipse.

Question 31

Akbar the Great

Answer 31

est zoos ton several cities in India; quality and size on par with best zoo; each had a doctor; open to public; encouraged study of animals; sign at entrance “Meet your brother. Take them to your hearts, and respect them”; first attempt to educate public instead of entertainment

Question 32

Fracastroro

Answer 32

attributes passing if infectious diseases by contact, indirect contact and minute bodies in the air; isolation and disinfection way to control epidemics.

Question 33

Ellen Richards

Answer 33

brought in the women’s took water and food thought that food and water are major factors in life.

Question 34

George Catlin

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first person to write about the formation about national parks.

Question 35

John James Audubon

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awareness of wildlife and conservation to the public.

Question 36

Von Humboldt

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the want of fuel and the scarcity of water

Question 37

What did Malthus observe

Answer 37

that plants and animals produce far more offspring than can survive

Question 38

Lacey Act

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regulated interstate traffic in wild bird to stop importation where endangered

Question 39

Who created Pelican Island

Answer 39

Theordore Roosevelt

Question 40

Who was Martha

Answer 40

The last passenger pigeon

Question 41

Migratory Bird Treaty

Answer 41

with Canada restricts hunting of geese and other migratory birds.

Question 42

Fed aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (Pitman Wildlife Act)

Answer 42

The act that put a tax that contribute towards conservation

Question 43

Who wrote Silent Springs

Answer 43

Rachael Carson

Question 44

Who were the three big environmental presidents?

Answer 44

Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton