Unit 2 Ch. 7.1

Question 1

What is an Ecological Footprint

Answer 1

The total amount of functional ecosystems needed to both provide the resources a human population uses, and to absorb the wastes that the population generates.

Question 2

True or False: The ecological footprint of the U.S. is approximately four times larger than the rest of the world.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is the Great acceleration and what caused it

Answer 3

It is the greatest change in humanities relationship with the Earth which began around the 1950’s. It was caused by improved medicine, more agricultural developments, climbing birthrates and falling death rates, burning more fossil fuels, etc…

Question 4

What is the Anthropocene

Answer 4

It is the period in which human activity had become the major cause of global change.

Question 5

What is an anthrome

Answer 5

They are globally significant ecological patterns created by long-term interactions between humans and ecosystems.