1)What Is Meant by a Sustainable Society?

A.P.E.S Quiz’s

Quiz 1

1)What is meant by a sustainable society?

2)What is the #1 cause of all environmental problems?

3)What are the 2 main types of pollution? Give examples

Quiz 2

1)One positive and one negative for the following on how they impacted environment

1. Hunter gatherer
2. Agricultural
3. Industrial

2)What is Aldo Leopold’s land ethic?

3)Name one president & their impact on the environment

Quiz 3

1)Define science and list the steps of the scientific method?

2)List a household item that is basic and one that is acidic and neutral?

3)Describe one environmental lesson learned from Easter Island.

Quiz 4

1)What is the main energy source of all life on earth?

2)Describe the energy flow thru and ecosystem.

3)Draw/Label the water cycle

4)What is soil made of?

Quiz 5

1)What is Evolution?

2)What is a Niche?

3)Who is considered the “father of evolution” and where did he study?

Quiz 6

1)In relation to time difference, differentiate climate and weather.

2)What is Enso, and how does it affect South America.

3)How does topography affect life on a planet?

4)What percent of clay, sand, silt is sandy loam made of?

Quiz 7

1)Describe the following

1. Photic
2. Aphotic
3. Benthic
4. Intertidal

2)Differentiate Eutrophic and Oligotrophic.

3)Describe Limnetic , littoral , Profundal.

Quiz 8

1)Describe two types of succession?

2)Differentiate keystone and indicator species?

3)Describe 3 types of symbiotic relationships?

Quiz 9

1)Describe 2 characteristics of r and k selected species (2 for each)?

2)Describe two abiotic limiting factors that will promote growth?

3)Describe two biotic limiting factors that will decrease growth?

4)Label A and B

Quiz 10

1)The population of the African country of Nigeria is increasing by 2.8% a year. How long will it take for its population to double?

2)

Label Slow, Negative, and fast growth

3)What are 3 solutions to slow population growth in developing countries?

Chapter 11: Sustaining terrestrial biodiversity

1)What is the #1 Human factor that leads to decrease biodiversity?

2)List 3 human activities that lead to decrease biodiversity

3)List 3 of the 5 main causes of deforestation.

Chapter 12: Sustaining Biodiversity the species approach

1)Differentiate endangered from threatened species and give examples

2)List 3 extinction threats

3)Describe 1 law that protects species from becoming extinct .(Name/Law)

Chapter 13:Sustaining aquatic biodiversity

1)Where are three areas of greatest biodiversity in the ocean?

2)List 3 human activities that have lead to the decline of aquatic biodiversity

3)Describe 3 ways to properly manage fisheries.

Chapter 14: Food and Soil resources

1)What are the 3 most important foods worldwide for people

2)Describe the +/- of trawl line fishing, purse-seine fishing, long line fishing, drift net fishing

3)Describe the 3 main causes of soil erosion

4)What are the 3 systems that provide us with food?

5)What type of agriculture is used in developed and developing countries?

6)List 2 ways to increase soil conservation

Chapter 15:Water Resources

1)Describe 2 important properties of water

2)Using arrows, draw the water cycle

3)Describe ways to reduce water consumption

Chapter 16: Geology/mineral resources

1)Draw the rock cycle

2)What are 3 ways to mine minerals from areas?

3)Differentiate gangue/ Ore

Chapter 17: Nonrenewable energy

1)Describe the basic design of most electricity producing power plants

2)List the 3 fossil fuels and circle the one most used in us/world to produce electricity.

3)What are 3 types of coal?

4)What is the importance/ Location of Yucca Mountain?

Chapter 18: Renewable energy

1)Describe 3 ways to reduce energy waste.

2)Differentiate between passive/active solar heating

3)Give a +/- for the following

1. Wind power
2. Ethanol
3. Geothermal

Chapter 19: Quiz

1)Differentiate Toxic and hazardous

2)What is LD50?

3)Differentiate bioaccumulation and biomagnifications

Chapter 20: Air pollution

1)What are the two layers of the atmosphere most important for organisms and why?

2)Differentiate Industrial and Photochemical Smog

3)Describe two ways to deal with acid rain

Chapter 21: Climate change

1)List 3 greenhouse gases

2)Describe the greenhouse effect

3)What is the major causes and consequences of ozone hole?

4)Name a law/treaty that protects ozone layer

Chapter 22:

1)List one point and non point source of water pollution

2)What does D.O. stand for and what is the minimum amount of D.O. needed in a healthy aquatic ecosystem

3)How do we purify our drinking water and prevent raw sewage from entering the ocean

Chapter 23:

1)Describe the impact DDT had on the environment

2)List 3 ways to control pests

3)Give an example of biological pest control

Chapter 24

1)Which of the following produce most waste

1. Mining
2. Industrial
3. Agriculture
4. Homes

2)List 3 ways to produce less waste

3)List one article that can be recycled, one that can me reused, and one that can be reduced.

4)List 3 strategies Subaru uses in its quest to receive zero landfill stats

Chapter 25

1)What are greenbelts and draw one

2)Differentiate urban vs. rural

3)Describe 3 health hazards of urban areas

4)What is one health hazard produced by fluorescent light bulbs.

Chapter 26

1)What is full cost pricing?

2)How is full cost pricing a positive to the environment?

3)How can reducing poverty help the environment?

Chapter 27

1)What is the responsibility/ roots of CITIES?

2)What is the purpose of theurban growth boundary?

3)How can individuals affect environmental policy?

Chapter 28

1)Define what is meant by ethics?

2)Describe: Planetary management, standardized and environmental wisdom

3)How can you escape affluenza?