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Question 0

What did SF experience during the late 19th century, and why

Answer 0

Population boom bc of gold rush

Question 1

Nat’l Park, ____ of SF, created in what year

Answer 1

Yosemite Nat’l Park, East, 1890

Question 2

Disasters that struck SF during ‘06

Answer 2

Earthquake and fire

Question 3

Study of interaction of humans with the natural env

Answer 3

Env Sci

Question 4

All conditions that surround an organism

Answer 4

Environment

Question 5

4 envs

Answer 5

C limate
A ir and water
P resence of other organisms
S oil and other landforms

Question 6

Including concepts and ideas from other fields of study

Answer 6

Interdisciplinary

Question 7

Major Env problems

Answer 7

Resource depletion
Pollution
Loss of biodiversity

Question 8

Can be replenished within a human lifetime, and example

Answer 8

Renewable resources. Timber, water

Question 9

Can be replenished extremely slowly, if at all.

Answer 9

Nonrenewable resources. Coal, oil, minerals.

Question 10

Degradation/undesired change in air water or soil that affects the health of living things, also its 2 kinds

Answer 10

Pollution. Biodegradable, nondegradable

Question 11

Number of difft species present in one ecosystem

Answer 11

Biodiversity

Question 12

Complete loss of species. Natural even accelerated by:

Answer 12

Extinction. Humans

Question 13

___ major extinction events in earth’s history

Answer 13

5

Question 14

Extinctions happening at a slow rate

Answer 14

Background rate

Question 15

Normal bg extinction rate for mammals

Answer 15

1 in 200 years

Question 16

Discipline that studies moral relationship opf humans w env

Answer 16

Environmental ethics

Question 17

Protects and promotes human interest at the expense of other orgs

Answer 17

Anthropo

Question 18

Nature deserves to exist for its own sake regardless of its usefulness to humans

Answer 18

Ecocentrism

Question 19

“Greatest good with the greatest number in the long run”

Answer 19

Gifford Pinochet’s resource conservationism

Question 20

Focus of Resource conservatism is to

Answer 20

Protect open land

Question 21

Book about effects of pesticide to predatory birds

Answer 21

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)

Question 22

Threats of pollution and other toxic chemicals to humans and other orgs

Answer 22

Modern environmentalism

Question 23

Essay describing the source of environmental problems as st interest of individuals or lt interest of civilization and earth

Answer 23

Garrett hardin, tragedy of the commons

Question 24

Belongs to no individual, shared within society

Answer 24

Commons

Question 25

Basic principle of econ

Answer 25

Supply and demand

Question 26

Befit of doing sth justifies the economic cost

Answer 26

Cost/benefit analysis

Question 27

Town in India where a pesticide factory leaked large amounts of chemicals in the air

Answer 27

Bhopal

Question 28

In 1999, ____ was purchased by DOW chemical

Answer 28

Union Carbide

Question 29

Developing countries have these as compared to developed countries

Answer 29

Shorter lifespan
Lower income
Rapid population growth

Question 30

A measurement of a person’s resouce use

Answer 30

Ecological footprint

Question 31

Developed countries have ____ economic footprint meaning that

Answer 31

Larger. They use more resources.

Question 32

Sustainability means

Answer 32

Human needs are met so population can survive indefinitely

Question 33

Nothing else enters and leaves the Earth except heat. This means earth is a ___ system

Answer 33

Closed

Question 34

This river caught fire bc of too much chemical pollution.

Answer 34

Cuyahoga