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Environmental Science Final Exam Review
Questions & Answers
1. Environmental Science
Answer The study of the impact of humans on the environment.
2. Ecology
Answer the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organismsand
their environment.
3. Ecological Footprint
Answer The amount of biologically productive land and waterneeded to support
a person or population.
4. Natural Resource
Answer any material in nature that people use and value.
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5. Pollution
Answer Release of harmful materials into the environment.
6. Biodiversity
Answer variety of many different species in an area, the variety of species living
within an ecosystem.
7. Hunter-Gatherers
Answer people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to
survive.
8. Agricultural Revolution
Answer The time when human beings first domesticated plantsand animals and no
longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering. Started 10,000years ago.
9. Industrial Revolution
Answer the change from an agricultural to an industrial societyand from home
manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that tookplace in England
from about 1750 to about 1850.
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10. Sustainability
Answer The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainableecosystem is
one that can be maintained.
11. Biodegradable
Answer Able to be broken down naturally.
12. Geosphere
Answer The mostly soild, rocky part of the earth; extends from the centerof the core
to the surfaceof the crust.
13. Lithosphere
Answer the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle.
14. Asthenosphere
Answer The solid, plastic layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere;made of mantle
rock that flows very slowly, which allows tectonic plates to move ontop of it.
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