Lesson 1: Introduction to Environmental Science

Question 1

What do you call a systematic body of knowledge?

Answer 1

Science

Question 2

What do you call an interdisciplinary study that focuses on the interaction of the natural sciences with social sciences?

Answer 2

Environmental Science

Question 3

What do you call the movement for protecting the earth’s life?

Answer 3

Environmentalism

Question 4

What do you call the study of interactions between organisms and their environment?

Answer 4

Ecology

Question 5

It refers to all organisms living in an area and their physical environment wherein they interact?

Answer 5

Ecosystem

Question 6

What do you call the place where everything that affects a living organism which can include both biotic and abiotic factors?

Answer 6

Environment

Question 7

What are the three things that keep us alive?

Answer 7

Solar Energy
Resources
Services

Question 8

Examples of resources

Answer 8

Air
Water
Soil
Energy
Minerals

Question 9

What are examples of services that keep us alive?

Answer 9

population control
nutrient recycling
climate control
population control
waste treatment
biodiversity
pest and disease control

Question 10

Without these organisms, an organism’s population will remain unchecked.

Answer 10

Predators

Question 11

What will help control organism population?

Answer 11

Innovation

Question 12

Refers to the growth of the population of an organism?

Answer 12

Population growth

Question 13

What do you call the growth in the capacity of an economy to provide goods and services?

Answer 13

Economic Growth

Question 14

What does GDP stand for?

Answer 14

Gross Domestic Product

Question 15

What do you call the annual market value of goods and services?

Answer 15

GDP or Gross Domestic Product

Question 16

What do you call the GDP dividend by its total population?

Answer 16

Per capita GDP

Question 17

What do you call the improvement of living standards by economic growth?

Answer 17

Economic development

Question 18

Three types of resources

Answer 18

Perpetual
Renewable
Non-renewable

Question 19

This is the highesr rate at which a renewable resource can be used without reducing the available supply

Answer 19

Sustainable Yield

Question 20

What do you call the depleion or destruction of potentially renewable resourve that is used faster than is replenished

Answer 20

Environmental Degredation

Question 21

What do you call th biologically productive land and water required to supply a population

Answer 21

Ecological Footprint

Question 22

These are resourves that takes millions or billions of years to replenish

Answer 22

Non-renewable resources

Question 23

These resources can be fairly and rapidly replenish through natural resources

Answer 23

Renewable

Question 24

These are resources that cannot be exhausted

Answer 24

Perpetual Resources

Question 25

What does prevention do to pollution?

Answer 25

Input control

Question 26

What do cleanups do to pollution?

Answer 26

Output control

Question 27

Major Environmental Problems

Answer 27

Biodiversity
Air Pollution
Water Pollution
Waste Production
Food Supply Problems

Question 28

It is an undesirable change in physical, chemical, biological or etc. of natural stuff that can adversely affect organisms

Answer 28

Pollution

Question 29

Pollution is divided into two categories

Answer 29

Point Source Pollution
Non Point Source Pollution