Name ______Date ______

Environmental Science Review Sheet Test ______

Chapters 1 and 2 and classwork

Objectives:

Explain the focus of environmental science.

Describe the recent trends in human population and resource consumption.

Explain what science is.

Describe the process of science.

Describe the major roles of the scientific community in the process of science.

Explain the study of environmental ethics.

Describe two basic concepts of economics.

Explain the relationship between economics and the environment.
Describe ways that economies are working toward sustainability.
Explain the purpose of environmental policy.
Describe the history of U.S. environmental policy.
Describe the direction of current U.S. environmental policy.
Identify major international institutions involved in environmental policy.
Discuss different approaches to environmental policy.
List the steps involved in the environmental policy process.

Types of Problems:

  • Calculate remaining populations (charts that include the reproduction coefficient).
  • Analyze supply and demand curves.
  • What science is and isn’t. The process of science.
  • Renewable and nonrenewable natural resources.
  • Types of environmental ethics.
  • Reasons for the modern exponential population growth (such as Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions).
  • Types of ecolabels.
  • Cost-benefit analysis.
  • USA and International Environmental Policy.

Terms:

environmentsustainablerenewablenonrenewableenvironmental science

environmentalismecocentrismanthropocentrismbiocentrismpeer review

ecological footprintnatural resourcescientific theorycontrolled studyhypothesis

ethicseconomicssupply demandcost-benefit analysis

ecolabelinggreen taxcap and tradesubsidyenvironmental policy

EPAexponential growthfossil fuelsTragedy of the Commons

Safe Drinking Water Act

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. What is the picture to the right an example of?

2. Name 2 organizations that help coordinate international environmental policy.

3. The table below gives information for two species of fish that live in a small lake. Enter the remaining population size for each species at the end of a week.

(Hint: subtract estimated death from initial population size. Then enter the estimated offspring count for the remaining population of each species. Hint: multiply remaining population size by the reproduction coefficient.)

Type of Fish / Reproduction Coefficient /
Initial Population Size / Estimated Fish Death / Remaining Population Size / Estimated Offspring Count / Final
Population Size
Species X / 1.2 / 300 / 140
Species Y / 0.9 / 600 / 350

4. Compare and contrast a subsidy with a command and control approach to environmental policies.

5. On the graph to the right, what is the equilibrium price of the product? What price should the product be sold at? Why?

6. What is the shortcoming with using the term environment to mean the nonhuman or “natural” world apart from human society?

7.Compare and contrast environmental science and environmentalism.

8.Explain the difference between the scientific usage of the term theory and the usage of the word theory in everyday language.

9. Explain the difference between and independent and dependent variable. What are constants in an experiment?

Note:

Study from your textbook, notes, homework, quizzes, worksheets, classwork, activities, etc!

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