Environment & Resource Management
CGR 4M1- Test 1 Review
Environmental Systems & Human-Environment Interactions
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Components of the Earth
Some misunderstandings about the environment.
What is the lithosphere divided into?
What is the biosphere?
What is ecology?
6) The Biosphere is combination of which of the three?
7) Earths systems i.e. Nitrogen, Carbon, Water
8) Earth Self Sustaining Unit
9) What is Biodiversity?
10) Define carrying capacity?
11) What are the global commons?
12) What are CPR’s vs. Public Good
13) What is a nutrient cycle?
14) Define a food chain?
15) What is an ecosystem?
16) What makes up an ecosystem?
17) What do species need to survive in an ecosystem
18) What is the GTA?
19) What have developers done to prevent flooding into rivers and streams?
20) What has decreased Canada agricultural land?
21) What are the major ways of harvesting forests?
22) Why do people leave rural areas?
23) Why do people leave urban areas?
24) What is the Places to Grow Act
25) What are the types of Urban Land Use
26) Describe overpopulation?
27) What is Thomas Malthus’s Theory
28) What is the Adaptation Theory
29) Discuss some examples of the Adaptation Theory in practice in the past and present i.e.
Green Revolution, GM Foods, Plumpy Nut
30) The Demographic Transition Model
31) Relate the Demographic Transition Model to Population growth
32) Relate Population Pyramids to the DTM
33) What are Causes, Consequences, and Solutions to overpopulation
34) What are India, China, and Kenya doing to combat population growth
35) What is the difference between population growth in Developed countries compared to
Developing.
36) Movies: Shark Water, World in the Balance, Future of Food, Plumpy Nut, Gates
Foundation,
Test Break Down: 85 marks
Multiply Choice : 35 marks
Matching: 15 marks
Shortish Answer: 15 marks
Longish Answer: 10 marks
Graphic Analysis: 10 marks
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