ECS 1500 Final Exam Practice Questions with Correct Answers.

Environmental Science Correct Answer examines interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment, including their effects on all types of organisms but more often refers to human impact on the environment Green Revolution Correct Answer initiatives from the 1930s to the 1960s that increased agricultural production worldwide involving development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers What are some examples of disciplines involving environmental science? Correct Answer environmentalism Correct Answer Environmental Activism Aldo Leopold and land ethic Correct Answer concept which enlarged our sphere of concern to include animals, plants, and landforms (whole photographs of Earth) Stewart Udall Correct Answer his book, quiet crisis, took a wider view to the total environmental effects of the growth-at-any-cost economy (an environmental ethic) Biosphere Correct Answer Earth's system that is living things geosphere Correct Answer Earth's system that is Earth Tectonosphere Correct Answer Earth's system that is the plates Cryosphere Correct Answer Earth's system that contain's ice Atmosphere Correct Answer Earth's system that is gas Hydrosphere Correct Answer Earth's atmosphere that is liquid Gaia Theory Correct Answer The Earth is a "living super-organism" and all of the "spheres" interact and readjust to maintain homeostasis Myth of Superabundance Correct Answer (land myth) inexhaustible resources; Management unnecessary; effects of this are still visible Cuyahoga River Correct Answer Single most significant event to spur environmental awareness; 13 fires from