People

Question 1

JRR Booth

Answer 1

Mill owner who didn’t like government policies about dealing with sawdust, still used it for pulp and paper

Question 2

George Perkins Marsh

Answer 2

first to see the signs of infiltration
he said that civilizations will collapse because of environmental degradation
Had 3 fundamental principle of conservatio
1. natural resources are finate
2. humans and nature are interconnected
3. over use of natural resources will disrupt the natural ballance.

Question 3

Henry Kelsey

Answer 3

used to be a HBC trader, but explored the prairies, concluding that they were dry, barren, inhospitable.

Question 4

Alexander Van Humboldt

Answer 4

One of the first people to look at nature as an object of study

Question 5

James Watt

Answer 5

invented the steam engine in 1776

Question 6

Rudolf Deisel

Answer 6

Invented the combustion engine in 1890

Question 7

Karl Clark

Answer 7

discovered how to make bitumen in 1925 at U of A

Question 8

Martin Baffin

Answer 8

went on an expidition in 1577 to find hornsblade fools gold, brought it back to europe to find that it was fake.

Question 9

Samuel Herne

Answer 9

searched for copper deposits in the territories, found a tribe of Inuit people at bloody falls and killed them all.

Question 10

William Logan

Answer 10

directed the geological survey of the land in 1842, took more than 100 years to complete, finished in 1960’s

Question 11

Alfred Nobel

Answer 11

discovered how to make dynamite using nitroglycerin in 1866.

Question 12

James B Harkin

Answer 12

commissioner of the parks branch, added 12 new parks, got rid of lots of indigenous people on the land to protect animals to promote tourism.

Question 13

Jean Chrichen

Answer 13

minister of indian affairs, added 10 new parks to canada

Question 14

Yuri Gargarin

Answer 14

first man in space: USSR

Question 15

Neil Armstrong

Answer 15

fist man on the moon on july 20th, 1969

Question 16

James lovelock

Answer 16

formulated the Gaia Hypothesis

Question 17

Paul ehrlich

Answer 17

formulated the population bomb idea

Question 18

Barry commoner

Answer 18

first introduces the idea of sustainability in 1971

pointed out that polution and waste affected the poor: had 4 laws of ecology

1. everything is connected
2. everything must go somewhere
3. nature knows best
4. there is no such thing as a free lunch

Question 19

Marry Van Stolk

Answer 19

co founded the Save Tomorrw Oppose Polution movement in 1970

Question 20

William T. Love

Answer 20

half dug a canal from lake ontario to lake erie

Question 21

Svante Arhenius

Answer 21

first scientist to connect global warming with carbon emissions

Question 22

James Hansen

Answer 22

climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard institute of space studies: went to senate hearings

Question 23

Rachel Carson

Answer 23

Mother of Modern Environmentalism
she spoke out against chemical use in houses, specifically DDT

Question 24

John Muir

Answer 24

he was an explorer who wanted to value the beauty of nature for it’s own right
he pushed for preservationism.