ENVS 1126 EXAM WITH COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS { GRADED
A+}
Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring -✔✔ described the environmental
effects of
pesticides
environmentalist's paradox -✔✔ Over the past 40 years, human well-being has
improved, BUT
Natural ecosystems that provide us with goods
and services have declined
Four hypotheses that try to explain
the environmental paradox -✔✔ • Measurements of human well-being are flawed
,− Human well-being is actually declining
• Food production has been enhanced and
outweighs the declines in other ecosystem
services
• Technology makes humans less dependent on
ecosystem services
• There is a time lag between ecosystem decline
and human well-being
Four important global trends can
test these hypotheses -✔✔ Human population and well-being
The status of vital ecosystem services
Global climate change
A loss of biodiversity
The Human Development
Index (HDI) -✔✔ assesses the
, human well-being of nation
Health, education, basic
living standards
(has increased in most nations)
Ecosystem capital -✔✔ Ecosystems support human life and
economies with goods and services
Provisioning services -✔✔ goods like food and fuel
Regulating services -✔✔ processes like flood
protection
Cultural services -✔✔ nonmaterial benefits like
recreation
1970 -✔✔ When was the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency created?
7.3 -✔✔ Currently, there are approximately __________ billion
people living on the planet.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS { GRADED
A+}
Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring -✔✔ described the environmental
effects of
pesticides
environmentalist's paradox -✔✔ Over the past 40 years, human well-being has
improved, BUT
Natural ecosystems that provide us with goods
and services have declined
Four hypotheses that try to explain
the environmental paradox -✔✔ • Measurements of human well-being are flawed
,− Human well-being is actually declining
• Food production has been enhanced and
outweighs the declines in other ecosystem
services
• Technology makes humans less dependent on
ecosystem services
• There is a time lag between ecosystem decline
and human well-being
Four important global trends can
test these hypotheses -✔✔ Human population and well-being
The status of vital ecosystem services
Global climate change
A loss of biodiversity
The Human Development
Index (HDI) -✔✔ assesses the
, human well-being of nation
Health, education, basic
living standards
(has increased in most nations)
Ecosystem capital -✔✔ Ecosystems support human life and
economies with goods and services
Provisioning services -✔✔ goods like food and fuel
Regulating services -✔✔ processes like flood
protection
Cultural services -✔✔ nonmaterial benefits like
recreation
1970 -✔✔ When was the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency created?
7.3 -✔✔ Currently, there are approximately __________ billion
people living on the planet.
