AP Environmental Science UPDATED Questions and CORRECT Answers
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AP Environmental Science
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AP Environmental Science
AP Environmental Science UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
first massed produced plug in car - CORRECT ANSWER - BYDF3DM
idea of economic improvement is possible without devastating the enviro - CORRECT
ANSWER - sustainable development
AP Environmental Science UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
first massed produced plug in car - CORRECT ANSWER - BYDF3DM
idea of economic improvement is possible without devastating the enviro - CORRECT
ANSWER - sustainable development
shifting attention from questions of preserving a particular landscape or preventing pollution of a
specific watershed to concern about the life support system of the whole plant - CORRECT
ANSWER - global environmentalism
average american requires about 9.7 global hectors worth of resources per year. the average
person in china uses 2.1 global hectors per year. Providing 1.3 mil chinese with american
lifestyle would require and additional - CORRECT ANSWER - 10 billion global hectors
per year
exemplified by starlings displacing bluebirds from nesting sites - CORRECT ANSWER -
Competition
exemplified by bees consuming nectar and carrying pollen from one flower to another -
CORRECT ANSWER - mutualism
exemplified by moss growing on a tree trunk in a forest - CORRECT ANSWER -
commensalism
exemplified by ticks on a deer - CORRECT ANSWER - parasitism
one species benefits while the other neither suffers nor benefits - CORRECT ANSWER -
commensalism
, exemplifed by a Titmouse and a Chickadee living in the same territory, using some of the same
resources - CORRECT ANSWER - competition
systematic study of our environment and our proper place in it - CORRECT ANSWER -
environmental science
activity that borrows from the future and cannot continue indefinitely - CORRECT
ANSWER - Non-sustainable
circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms - CORRECT
ANSWER - environment
individuals acting independently according to eachs self interest behave contrary to the best
interests of the group by depleting a common resource - CORRECT ANSWER - tragedy
of the commons
complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community - CORRECT
ANSWER - environment
millions of species inhabit Earth in a complex, interrelated community where towering trees and
huge animals live together with, and depend on, tiny life forms, such as viruses, bacteria and
gungi - CORRECT ANSWER - diversity of life
an intrinsic right to exist - CORRECT ANSWER - inherent value
worthy of equal rights legal protections - CORRECT ANSWER - moral value
a sense of right and wrong - CORRECT ANSWER - ethics
extending value, legal rights, and rights to an ever wider circle of living things - CORRECT
ANSWER - moral extensionism
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