Environmental Science Study Guide for chapter 1 and 2 test.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(2)/Environmental%2
Environmental Science Study Guide
Questions & Answers
1. What is environmental science?
Answer the study of how nature works, how things innature are interconnected and
how humans interact with the earth
2. Physical sciences
Answer (natutal) sciences like chemistry and biology
3. Social sciences
Answer like economics and politics
4. What is exponential growth?
Answer The larger the number is the faster it grows
5. What is exponential growth halted by?
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Answer Carrying capacity
6. What is sustainability?
Answer The ability of earths various systems including humanculture and economy,
to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions.
7. What is an environmentally sustainably environment?
Answer one that satisfys the basic needs of people without depleting or degrading its
natural resources, therebypreventing current and future generations from meeting
there basic needs.
8. What is sustainable living?
Answer taking no more potentially renewable resourcesfrom the natural world
that can be replenished naturally and not overloading thecapacity of the
enivironment to cleanse and renew itself by natural processes
9. What is degrading natural capital?
Answer Using renewable resources faster thannature can renew them
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