envi sci

Question 1

World’s problems stemmed from the pressure of population on natural
resources and viewed all the worlds problems as a proof that human
population was pressing on natural resources

Answer 1

Thomas Robert Malthus

Question 2

was derived from a French word ‘environner’ which means to encircle
or to surround. These include living and nonliving things that surround us.

Answer 2

‘environment’

Question 3

a potent insecticides that had been used in American agriculture starting in World War
II.

Answer 3

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
(DDT),

Question 4

Environmentalism became mass social movement

Answer 4

1960 - 1970

Question 5

First Earth Day was organized on

Answer 5

April 22, 1970

Question 6

Clean Air act, Pesticide Control Act Safe Drinking Water act, Federal Pollution Control Act
Amendments, Toxic Substance Control act and Endangered species act.

Answer 6

1960 - 1970

Question 7

Comprehensive Environment Response Compensation and Liability Act or

Answer 7

Superfund Act

Question 8

on substances that
depletes the ozone layer.

Answer 8

Montreal Protocol

Question 9

International treaty that focuses on the reduction of greenhouse gases that causes global
warming.

Answer 9

Kyoto Protocol

Question 10

Study of organisms and the environment interacting with one another (Doria et al., 2019).

Answer 10

ECOLOGY

Question 11

This includes the changes that chemical make in the environment

Answer 11

CHEMISTRY

Question 11

Scientific discipline that focuses on determination of how environmental factors affect
biological and physical processes in agricultural and natural ecosystems (Environmental
Physics, n.d.).

Answer 11

PHYSICS

Question 12

 Study that deals with human behaviour in its social and cultural aspects.

Answer 12

SOCIAL SCIENCES