ENVI SCI

Question 1

What do you call the interdisciplinary study which deals with how the earth works, our interaction with the earth and ways to deal with environment problems and live more sustainably

Answer 1

Environmental Science

Question 2

What do you call that integrates information and ideas from natural sciences

Answer 2

Environmental Science

Question 3

What do you call the social movement dedicated to protecting the earth’s life

Answer 3

Environmentalism

Question 4

What do you call that practiced more in the political and ethical arenas than in the realm of science

Answer 4

Environmentalism

Question 5

It is the ability of the earth’s various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely

Answer 5

Sustainability

Question 6

What is the 3 important lessons from nature of principles of sustainability

Answer 6

Solar energy, biodiversity, and chemical cycling

Question 7

What do you call the natural resources plus natural services plus the sun

Answer 7

Natural capital

Question 8

It is the materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans

Answer 8

Natural resources

Question 9

It is the processes in nature such as purification or air and water, pollination

Answer 9

Natural service

Question 10

Nutrient cycling is one of the vital ____?

Answer 10

Natural service

Question 11

biologically productive land and water needed to indefinitely supply the people in a particular country or area with renewable resources and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by such resource use

Answer 11

ecological footprint

Question 12

as our ecological footprint grows, the more the earth’s natural capital depletes and degrades

Answer 12

ecological footprint

Question 13

time delay between unsustainable practices and detrimental environmental effects can cause environmental problems to build slowly until the threshold

Answer 13

ecological tipping point

Question 14

reaching the tipping point often causes irreversible shift in the behavior of natural systems

Answer 14

ecological tipping point

Question 15

estimate of its production of certain biological materials

Answer 15

biocapacity

Question 16

total ecological footprint is larger than its biological capacity to replenish its renewable resources and absorb the resulting wasters and pollution

Answer 16

ecological deficity

Question 17

degradation of normally renewable natural resources and services in parts of the world, mostly as a result of rising population and resource use per person

Answer 17

natural capital degradation

Question 18

air pollution, climate change, soil erosion, shrinking forests, decreased wildlife habitats, species extinction, aquifer depletion, declining ocean fisheries, water pollution are all example of what?

Answer 18

natural capital degradation

Question 19

each user of a shared common resource reasons “if I do not use this resource, someone else will”

Answer 19

tragedy of the commons

Question 20

“the little bit that I use or pollute is not enough to matter and anyway, it is a renewable resource”

Answer 20

tragedy of the commons

Question 21

cumulative effect leads to?

Answer 21

degradation