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APES Module 1 Questions and Answers What is fracking? process used to extract oil and gas How does the process of fracking work? uses high pressure fluids to force open cracks in rocks underground, allowing for extraction from places that were previously difficult to get to. Advant...

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APES Module 1 Questions and Answers
What is fracking? - answer process used to extract oil and gas

How does the process of fracking work? - answer uses high pressure fluids to force
open cracks in rocks underground, allowing for extraction from places that were
previously difficult to get to.

Advantages of fracking - answer 1. large quantities of natural gas available for low
price
2. Produces less air pollutants than coal

Disadvantages of fracking - answer 1. large amounts of water used
2. chemical contamination of underground water

What does the debate about fracking demonstrate about the problems environmental
science addresses? - answer demonstrates that human activities perceived as
harmless are harmful, and the difficulty of finding answers to many environmental
questions

What is the importance of studying systems in ES? - answer focuses on the
interaction of systems and their effect on each other

Why does the blending of many different disciplines present challenges to
environmental scientists? - answer takes knowledge from many different
backgrounds to understand

Why does the blending of many different disciplines present opportunities to
environmental scientists? - answer one can be involved in environmental science in
any way that interests them

How have tool use and social cooperation enabled humans to alter their environment
more than other species? - answer humans convert nature land to places for
humans to live and alter the chemistry of the air, pushing animals out of their habitats

How did early Homo sapiens impact their environment when they entered a new area?
What does this show? - answer Homo sapiens hunted animals to extinction, shows
that humans have had a direct impact on the environment for many years

5 major ways humans altered the environment in the last 10,000 years - answer 1.
Native Americans' hunting method created the Great Plains ecosystem
2. increase in Earth's average temperature
3. Urbanization forces animals out of habitats and adaptation
4. Overhunting of species

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