NRS Exam 1 Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update and Recommended Version
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NRS
Institution
NRS
Is climate change sexist?
→ Due to women in poorer countries not having the same opportunity as men with
education, they are more in the households and farms where climate change has more
of an effect.
What is environmental science?
→ An interdisciplinary academic field that integrates p...
NRS Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers the Latest Update and
Recommended Version
Is climate change sexist?
→ Due to women in poorer countries not having the same opportunity as men with
education, they are more in the households and farms where climate change has more
of an effect.
What is environmental science?
→ An interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology,geography,
ecology, chemistry, botany, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography,limnology, soil
science, geology and atmospheric science to the study of theenvironment, and find
solutions to environmental problems.
Preservation
→ protection of the environment from harmful human activities
Conservation
→ protection of the environment through the responsible use of natural resources
Management
→ the processes and practices of implementing conservation
sustainable development
→ development which meets the needsof the present without compromising the ability of
futuregenerations to meet their own needs
→ system based on the reuse and regeneration of materials or products, especially as a
means of continuing production in a sustainable or environmentally friendly way.
transdisciplinary
→ is a reflexive, integrative, method-driven scientific principle aiming at the solution or
transition of societal problems by differentiating and integrating knowledge from
various scientific and societal bodies of knowledge.
What are the units of ecological footprint?
→ global hectares
What is Earth's carrying capacity
→ the maximum population size an environment can sustain indefinitely.
Composition of the WHOLE Earth
→ Iron, Oxygen, silicon
Composition of the CRUST
→ Oxygen, silicon
Weather
→ Short term changes in the atmosphere
Climate
→ Atmospheric changes over long periods of time
Uniformitarianism
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