Questions for Review
1.
Define environment and environmental science.
2.
Describe four stages in conservation history and identify leaders
associated with each stage.
3.
List six environmental dilemmas that we now face and describe how
each concerns us.
4.
Define the human development index and compare some indicators of
quality of life between the richest and poorest nations.
5.
Why should we be concerned about the plight of the poor? How do
they affect us?
6.
What is sustainable development?
7.
Identify six goals for human development.
8.
What benefit to us would there be in protecting the rights of indigenous
people?
Define:
Environmental science
Botanist
Zoologist
Conservation
Pragmatic conservationist
Utilitarian conservationist
Preservation
Biocentric preservationist
Actism (environmental)
Research (environmental)
Global concerns
Global village
Infectious disease
Malnutrition
Fossil fuel
Renewable fuel
Global warming
Deforestation
Toxic pollution
Cultural environmentalism
Consumption
Waste
Poverty
Literacy
GNP
GDP
Birth rate
Safe drinking water
North/south division
Wealth
Resource use
Race
Equator
First world
Second world
Third world
Fourth world
Sustainable development
Economic development
Diversity
Biodiversity
Optimist
Technology
Technological optimist
Cornucopia
Cornucopian worldview
What is happening to the numbers of species around the world?
Amphibians (esp Frogs) are widely studied around the world. What is happening
to them? Read the ‘note’ about frogs and frog abnormalities. Be able to
describe it.
Why are amphibians being used as an indicator of environmental quality?
Where does the word ‘environment’ come from?
What causes environmental problems? Think about all the ways that the
environment is changed, what changes it, and the interactions between all
these things.
How does this involve the use of critical thinking skills?
Environmental Science is the study of the interactions of HUMANs and their
environment.
Humans change the environment to fit HUMAN needs.
The environment then ‘responds’, sometimes in ways that harm humans – think
about California mudslides, or CA wildfires.
What is the MAJOR advantage that humans have when impacting the
environment?
Who was Plato?
What did Plato say about the environment?
When and where did Plato live?
Name the other early environmentalists.
List them, where they lived, when they lived.
Why was each an ‘environmental expert’? What was the training of each?
What is Mauritius?
What happened there?
Who was:
Gifford Pinchot?
Theodore Roosevelt?
John Muir?
What kind of ‘conservation’ did these men believe in?
What is the difference between the National Park Service philosophy and that of
the National Forest?
How were these philosophies affected by Pinchot, Roosevelt, and Muir?
Who was Rachel Carson?
When and where did she live?
What did she do that was related to ‘environmentalism?
When were pollution problems first noted and related to human health?
How does ‘activism and research’ affect David Brower and Barry Commoner?
Why does modern environmental thinking include ‘global concerns’?
Why is ‘infectious disease’ a ‘global concern’?
How is malnutrition connected to infectious disease?
What is the world’s current population?
Where is most of the world’s current population?
What two countries have the most people?
Where is the greatest population growth occurring?
Why?
What causes violent conflicts between groups of people?
List the causes.
List the main type of fossil fuel used today?
Why is it called a fossil fuel?
What is happening to supplies of fossil fuels?
How would our understanding of environmental processes affect:
Global warming
Deforestation
Toxic pollution
List some things that indicate that we are having some success dealing with
environmental problems.
How are poor people affected by pollution?
How do poor people cause pollution?
WHY do poor people cause pollution?
Why are the Makah tribe members hunting gray whales?
What would happen if all the people in the world used resources at the same rate
as the people in the USA?
Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand make up
what percentage of the total world population?
What percentage of world energy use is used in Western Europe, North America,
Japan, Australia, and New Zealand?
How is consumption related to waste?
How is poverty passed from generation to generation?
How is literacy related to birth rates, safe drinking water, and GNP?
What is quality of life?
How is quality of life measured?
Why do the leaders of 3rd world countries NOT want the quality of life of their
populations measured?
What is meant by the North/South Division?
Describe this in terms of wealth, resource use, race, equator, first world, third
world and fourth world.
Compare and contrast 1st world countries with 2nd, 3rd and 4th world countries.
Include: type of government, type of economy, quality of life, literacy, education,
gender differences, etc
What is the GNP and GDP?
How are they related?
What is the basis for each?
What is the HDI? What are the drawbacks for the GDP, GNP, and HDI?
What has happened in recent years with respect to the gap between the rich and
the poor?
How is sustainable development related to resource use?
What do opponents and proponents of sustainable development say?
How does sustainable development differ from economic development?
Who was Aldo Leopold?
When and where did he live?
What did she do that was related to ‘environmentalism?
What did he say about ‘fear and warnings of ‘doom’?
How is this related to the ‘logical errors and fallacies’ from the introduction?
Describe the philosophy of the Technological Optimists and the Cornucopian
worldview.