Unit 1: Human-Enviroment Interactions

Question 1

What is the Environment? (4)

Answer 1

*the living and non-living things that we find around us AND with which we interact;

*the spiritually, aesthetically and/or culturally significant landscapes or spaces where we wish to preserve beauty;

*the unique spaces that are not typical in the landscape; and/or

*the destinations that celebrate a religious event or milestone.

Question 2

2 more points about the enviroment

Answer 2

*We get our goods and services come from the enviroment. The enviroment provides us with essental goods(metals, timber etc.) and services (pollination, water and air purification, oxygen)

*We are interconnected with the enviroment. As we utalize resources from the enviroment it can lead to responses that do or do not favor us.

Question 3

Perpetual resource

Answer 3

A resource that is always available

Question 4

non-renewable resource

Answer 4

a resource that is in a finite amout

Question 5

renewable resource

Answer 5

a resource that will always be available provided that it is managed correctly

Question 6

World population growth (3)

Answer 6

*population growth spiked in the industrual revolution

*Growth continues to be rapid in developing countries

*In North America, growth is much slower

Question 7

How do renewable resources become non-renewable

Answer 7

Having too many people harvesting too many resources leads to enviromental dedregation. If the rate of consumption is greater than the rate of replacement - then a once renewable resource will run out.

Question 8

Is overpopulation the problem?

Answer 8

It definatly is a part of it - however the main reason for the depletion of renewable resources is individuals living in “Luxary”.

Where Luxary isnt the typical billionaire and what not - but a person living beyond what they need to survive. In other words capatilism and overconsumption are the main problem

infact, 80% of the population lives in underdeveloped nations - however they only consume 20% of resources.

Question 9

Resource depletion solutions (2)

Answer 9

*Decrease poverity and increase standard of living in developing countries

*reduce overconsumption in devleoped countries

Question 10

Ecological footprint

Answer 10

Ecological Footprint is equivalent to demand and relates to how much land and water area a human population uses to provide all it needs from nature.

Question 11

Biocapacity

Answer 11

Biocapacity is the supply or availability of nature and represents the biologically productive area available to provide goods and services.If we cut down a forest and the forest is unable to regenerate fast enough to meet our demands, we have reduced the biocapacity.

Question 12

Ecological Overshoot

Answer 12

When the demand for ecological resources is greater than the supply

Question 13

The Brundland Commission

Answer 13

The Brundtland Commission, more formally known as the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), issued the report Our Common Future in 1987, which called on Humanity to control overpopulation, eradicate poverty and reduce resource consumption to promote environmental sustainability.

Question 14

The Brundland Commission 3 pilliard

Answer 14

*environmental concerns,
*socially responsible practices,
*economic cooperation

Question 15

Scientific process steps

Answer 15

1. Recognize a problem
2. Develop hypothesis
3. Design and perform experament
4. Analyze and interperate Data
5. share information

Question 16

Federal Sustainable development act

Answer 16

The government uses environmental indicators to measure the progress we have made in implementing and achieving sustainability. These environmental indicators include: air and climate; water; and nature.

Question 17

Lake 226

Answer 17

at the Experimental Lakes Area in Northwestern Ontario. They divided the lake in two so that they’d have a variable side and a control side. To the variable side, they added chemicals (equivalent to what was discharged from the pipe). They left the other side alone to see if other components of the environment would cause a change that could not be measured in the laboratory setting. The results were consistent with their initial experiments. By adding chemicals that ‘fertilized’ the water, they could stimulate plant growth on the ‘variable’ lake. The control lake remained unchanged. this experiment led to the understanding of how waterways become polluted with our fertilizers and detergents.