Test Bank for Essential Environment: The
Science Behind the Stories – 7th Edition
Environment - answer-Consists of all living and non-living things around us.
Environmental Science - answer-The study of how the natural world works, how our natural
environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.
Natural Resources - answer-The various substances and energy sources we take from our
environment and that we rely on to survive.
Renewable Natural Resources - answer-Natural resources that are replenished over short
periods of time, such as sunlight, wind energy, wave energy, and geothermal energy.
Nonrenewable Natural Resources - answer-Resources that are infinite in supply and are formed
much more slowly than we use them. Once we deplete a nonrenewable natural resource it is no
longer available. Such as fossil fuels, copper, aluminum, and other metals.
Ecosystem Services - answer-An essential service an ecosystem provides that supports life and
makes economic activity possible. Ecosystems purify air and water, cycle nutrients, regulate
climate, pollinate plants, and receive and recycle our waste
Agricultural Revolution - answer-Our transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an
agricultural way of life that began around 10,000 years ago.
Industrial Revolution - answer-Our shift from rural life, animal powered agricultural, and hand
crafted goods to an urban society provisioned by the mass production of factory made goods
and powered by fossil fuels.
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, Fossil Fuels - answer-Nonrenewable natural resources including oil, coal, and natural gas.
tragedy Of the Commons - answer-People are self motivated by self interest, therefore they will
deplete the resources.
Ecological Footprint - answer-Expresses environmental impact in terms of cumulative area of
the biologically productive land and water required to provide the resources a person or
population consumes and to dispose of of or recycle the waste a person or population
produces.
Interdisciplinary Field - answer-A field that borrows techniques from multiple disciplines and
brings their research together in a broad synthesis.
Natural Sciences - answer-Disciplines that examine the natural world.
Social Sciences - answer-Disciplines that address human interactions and institutions.
Environmental Studies - answer-An academic environmental science program that heavily
incorporates the social sciences and the natural sciences.
Environmentalism - answer-A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world and
by extension, people, from the undesirable changes brought about by human actions.
Science - answer-A systematic process for learning about the world and testing our
understanding of it. Also used to refer to the accumulated body of knowledge that arises from
this dynamic process of questioning, observation, testing, and discovery.
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Science Behind the Stories – 7th Edition
Environment - answer-Consists of all living and non-living things around us.
Environmental Science - answer-The study of how the natural world works, how our natural
environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.
Natural Resources - answer-The various substances and energy sources we take from our
environment and that we rely on to survive.
Renewable Natural Resources - answer-Natural resources that are replenished over short
periods of time, such as sunlight, wind energy, wave energy, and geothermal energy.
Nonrenewable Natural Resources - answer-Resources that are infinite in supply and are formed
much more slowly than we use them. Once we deplete a nonrenewable natural resource it is no
longer available. Such as fossil fuels, copper, aluminum, and other metals.
Ecosystem Services - answer-An essential service an ecosystem provides that supports life and
makes economic activity possible. Ecosystems purify air and water, cycle nutrients, regulate
climate, pollinate plants, and receive and recycle our waste
Agricultural Revolution - answer-Our transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an
agricultural way of life that began around 10,000 years ago.
Industrial Revolution - answer-Our shift from rural life, animal powered agricultural, and hand
crafted goods to an urban society provisioned by the mass production of factory made goods
and powered by fossil fuels.
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, Fossil Fuels - answer-Nonrenewable natural resources including oil, coal, and natural gas.
tragedy Of the Commons - answer-People are self motivated by self interest, therefore they will
deplete the resources.
Ecological Footprint - answer-Expresses environmental impact in terms of cumulative area of
the biologically productive land and water required to provide the resources a person or
population consumes and to dispose of of or recycle the waste a person or population
produces.
Interdisciplinary Field - answer-A field that borrows techniques from multiple disciplines and
brings their research together in a broad synthesis.
Natural Sciences - answer-Disciplines that examine the natural world.
Social Sciences - answer-Disciplines that address human interactions and institutions.
Environmental Studies - answer-An academic environmental science program that heavily
incorporates the social sciences and the natural sciences.
Environmentalism - answer-A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world and
by extension, people, from the undesirable changes brought about by human actions.
Science - answer-A systematic process for learning about the world and testing our
understanding of it. Also used to refer to the accumulated body of knowledge that arises from
this dynamic process of questioning, observation, testing, and discovery.
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