Intro Quiz

Question 1

environmental science

Answer 1

study of how humansinteract with their environment

Question 2

major environmental issues

Answer 2

resource depletion, pollution, loss of biodiversity

Question 3

hunter-gatherers

Answer 3

used fire to burn prairies and prevent trees, rapid climate change and over-hunting caused extinction

Question 4

agricultural revolution

Answer 4

replaced forest with farmland, used slash and burn, poor farming destroyed fertile land

Question 5

industrial revolution

Answer 5

pollution, habitat loss, population growth, artificial substances
most of environmental science is concerned with problems it caused

Question 6

tragedy of the commons

Answer 6

conflict between short term interests of individuals and long term welfare of society

Question 7

ecological footprint

Answer 7

shows productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country

Question 8

Rachel Carson

Answer 8

author of “Silent Spring”, tried to spread awareness and prevent use of harmful pesticides that destroyed the ecosystem

Question 9

Garret Hardin

Answer 9

wrote essay on tragedy of the commons