Chapter 1 Review Exercise

APES 2009 RKV Chapter 1, Environmental Problems… Review Exercise Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions, 15th Ed 1. Define the boldfaced terms in this chapter. Refer to the glossary for chapter 1 2. What is exponential growth? Give two examples of exponential growth

3. Distinguish among environment, ecology, environmental science, and environmentalism.

4. Looking at Figure 1-4 (p. 9), choose two natural resources and name two natural services that are provided by each of them.

5. What is an environmentally sustainable society? Distinguish between living on the earth's natural capital and living on the renewable biological income provided by this capital. How is this related to the sustainability of (a) the earth's life-support system and (b) your lifestyle?

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6. How rapidly is the world's population growing? How many people does this growth add each year?

7. Distinguish between economic growth, gross domestic product, and economic development. 8. Distinguish between developed countries and developing countries, and give three characteristics of each category.

8. What are perpetual resources and renewable resources? Give an example of each.

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9. What are sustainable yield and environmental degradation? Give five examples of environmental degradation.

10. Define common-property resources and name three such resources. What is the tragedy of the commons? Give three examples of this tragedy on a global scale. List two ways to deal with the tragedy of the commons.

11. What is the ecological footprint per person? Which three human activities have the greatest environmental impact?

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12. The total ecological footprint of the U. S. (with about one-fourth as many people as India) is about how many times the size of India's total ecological footprint?

13. What is a nonrenewable resource? What does it mean to say that a resource is economically depleted? When this happens, what are our options?

14. Distinguish between reuse and recycling, and give an example of each. What is pollution? Distinguish between point sources and nonpoint sources of pollution. List three types of harm caused by pollution.

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15. Distinguish between pollution prevention (input pollution control) and pollution cleanup (output pollution control). Name three problems with relying primarily on pollution cleanup. Why is pollution prevention better than pollution control?

16. List three problems which, according to environmental scientists, are caused by relying more on pollution clean-up than on pollution prevention.

17. According to environmental scientists, what are five basic causes of the environmental problems we face?

18. 1. List four ways in which poverty is related to the premature deaths of poor people. Why does it make sense for a poor family to have a large number of children?

What is "affluenza" and what are its harmful environmental effects? How can affluence help improve environmental quality?

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19. Describe a simple model of relationships between population size, resource consumption per person, technology, and overall environmental impact. How do these factors differ in developed and developing countries?

20. What was a major conclusion of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported in 2005?

21. What is an environmental worldview? Distinguish between the planetary management, stewardship, and environmental wisdom worldviews. Which one comes closest to your own environmental worldview?

22. State the four scientific principles of sustainability

23. Describe how the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee has built social capital in order to solve its environmental problems. What were three beneficial results of this process for the city?

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