Unit 1

Question 1

Environment

Answer 1

Includes all living and nonliving things with which organisms interact

Question 2

Environmentalism

Answer 2

Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world

Question 3

Renewable resources

Answer 3

Naturally replenished over short periods of time
- sunlight
- wind and wave energy

Question 4

Nonrenewable resources

Answer 4

Naturally formed more slowly than we use them
- natural gas
- coal
- copper

Question 5

Ecological footprint

Answer 5

The total amount of land and water required to:
● provide the raw materials an individual or population consumes
● dispose of or recycle the waste an individual or population consumes

Question 6

Rapid human population growth occurred by

Answer 6

Resource management

Question 7

Environmental science

Answer 7

Unbiased pursuit of knowledge about the workings of the environment and our interactions