Exam 1: Environment, Sustainability, and Science, Environmental Ethics, Economics, and Policy, and the Physical Science of the Environment

Describe the three main environmental ethic approaches used to determine who or what has value in the Earth's biosphere.

Read the accompanying scenario and answer the following questions. The human body has the capacity to do work or engage in energy each day. Answer the following questions about the energy you have as you run a triathlon. -When you are resting at the top of a hill on a bicycle prior to racing down the hill you have________Energy for movement.

Energy is the________ .

Rachel Carson's book,____________, pointed out the dangers posed to the natural environments and humans by pesticides.

Individuals in Africa often share crop and livestock land with other families in their community. What happens to the land as a result of each family using an individual's approach to managing it?

Match each term with the correct description. -Cultural services

The animal rights movements in society evolved from ____________.

Regulating ecosystem services are ways that ecosystems control important conditions and/or processes such as____________.

The current total world population has just passed ____________.

What is the end product of the scientific method for a particular question?

The pH scale is a quantitative representation of the relative amounts of ________ .

There are often eight issues that can be debated when reflecting on environmental policy. They include: 1. government versus individual 2. competing public values 3. uncertainty and action 4. which level of government decides? 5. which government agency has jurisdiction? 6. protection against selfish actions 7. the best means to an end 8. political power relationships Discuss at least two of the above issues, describing the challenges that each brings to developing environmental policy.

What is an element?

Cost per unit of a good or services decline as the level of production increases. This is described as____________

So far as we know, Earth is the only planet in our solar system that supports life. Describe/explain four major factors/characteristics unique to Earth, allowing for the evolution and support of life.

What is one barrier that makes it difficult for scientists to forecast environmental changes?

Sustainable use of resources requires ____________.

The most basic source of immediate energy for most organisms is________.

Environmental science is best described as ____________.

The energy of light is called electromagnetic radiation. In the electromagnetic spectrum, photosynthesis makes use of which specific wavelengths?