Exam 13: Human Environment

Over the past century the pace of human environmental change has ________________

What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water?

The Little Ice Age began to affect Europe in which century?

Sixty percent of Israel's water supply comes from the occupied territories of the Golan Heights and West Bank.

Globally,the consumption of resources is tied to _______________ more than any other factor.

The highest densities of coal and oil burning,which causes acid rain,are associated with large concentrations of heavy manufacturing,such as those in ________________

Growing understanding of the affects of the Little Ice Age leads to the suggestion that the chief cause of the rapid collapse of the Jamestown colony may well have been ______________

International concern over the loss of global species led to calls for a global convention (agreement)as early as ________________

Climatologist-geographer Alfred Wegener used his spatial view of the world to develop the theory of _______________

The Polynesians reduced the forests of their islands to brush,and by the time of the arrival of the Europeans,had exterminated more than 80 percent of the regional birds due to their penchant for __________________