Exam 1: Understanding Our Environment

Most people agree that global climate change is not a real environmental threat.

An important reason for determining the size of a society's ecological footprint is to determine the sustainability of its lifestyle.

The idea of stewardship is that humans have a/the ___________ the environment.

One way to decrease the size of our ecological footprint is to

The fundamental basis of environmental science as a discipline is the

The earliest documented recognition that misuse of the natural environment can have nasty consequences was

Pragmatic conservationists, including Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt, supported forest conservation in order to protect

There is concern over the continued ability to provide adequate food for our growing population because

Supplies of fossil fuels are

The history of conservation and environmentalism is

Which country listed is not in the top 5 with respect to sustainable development?

According to the U.N. Environment Programme how many species have gone extinct in the past century?

Which of the following areas does environmental science NOT draw information from to aid in solving problems?

Another word for "steward" is

The ecological footprint of countries like Madagascar and the United States are very similar.

Poverty is usually passed on from one generation to the next through

Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen estimates that at least 3 million people die each year from diseases triggered by

At the end of the twentieth century, ____________________ has/have been added to environmental thinking.

The earth is projected to have a population between 18 and 20 billion people by 2050.

The word "environment" comes from a French word that means