Environmental Issues FINAL EXAM REVIEW: I CAN...
Chapters 1, 2, 8, 9, CARBON, videos
1. List various human activities that affect the environment....and explain how.
2. Compare/contrast the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution + give examples for each in
which human activities altered their environment.
3. Explain what is meant by “ecological footprint”.
4. Compare the ecological footprint of a person living in a developed nation to that of a person living in a
developing nation.
5. Explain the differences between a developing and a developed nation…plus examples for each.
6. Explain the difference between observations, hypotheses, and predictions.
7. Explain the difference between a control group and an experimental group + describe the
significance/value of each to an experiment.
8. List the steps of the scientific method in the order they typically occur.
9. Identify/Explain the conflicts addressed by Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” and how this relates to
our present day.
10. Explain what a natural resource is.
11. Explain what sustainability is.
12. Identify the differences between renewable and non renewable resources + give examples for each.
13. Explain when/for what reasons scientists use correlations to test predictions.
14. Determine whether Earth is an open or closed system with respect to matter and energy.
15. Describe the three main properties of a population.
16. Describe exponential population growth.
17. Describe how the reproductive behavior of individuals can affect the growth rate of their population.
18. Explain how population sizes in nature are regulated.
19. Explain the difference between niche and habitat.
20. Describe the five major types of interactions between species.
21. Explain the difference between parasitism and predation.
22. Explain how symbiotic relationships may evolve.
23. Describe how the size and growth rate of the human population has changed in the last 200 years.
24. Define four properties that scientists use to predict population sizes.
Environmental Issues FINAL EXAM REVIEW: I CAN...
Chapters 1, 2, 8, 9, CARBON, videos
25. Make predictions about population trends based on age structure.
26. Describe the four stages of the demographic transition.
27. Explain why different countries may be at different stages of the demographic transition.
28. Describe three problems caused by rapid human population growth.
29. Compare population growth problems in more-developed countries and less developed countries.
30. Analyze strategies countries may use to reduce their population growth.
31. Describe worldwide population projections into the next century.
32. How did energy get from the sun 300 million years ago into a coal-burning power plant today? Explain
the path that energy took in this process, including how energy was transformed along the way.
33. Explain the difference between organic and inorganic materials (+ be able to explain why CO2 is NOT
organic!); give examples for each.
34. Where do/did the carbon atoms found in gasoline come from? (hint: where were those atoms before
they were in gasoline?)
35. Where did/does the energy for the C-C and C-H bonds found in gasoline come from? (hint: what form
was the energy in before it was chemical energy?)
36. Be able to follow the movement of C atoms from one pool to the next and identify the process that is
responsible for moving the C atoms.
MOVIE RELATED QUESTIONS:
37. Describe the process known as the greenhouse effect and explain how humans are
influencing/impacting this natural phenomenon (cite 2 examples within your explanation).
38. Explain how population growth is contributing to environmental degradation (be detailed/specific in your
answer)?
39. It is documented that it is Ecoli (a bacteria) in the hamburger meat/cows that can/is making people sick.
What is a realistic solution to eliminate this problem?
40. Explain the correlation between geography and inequality?
41. Explain why it is that herbivores are the best choice for domestication?
42. Thoughts on “Who Killed the Electric Car” and support your response.
43. Thoughts on bottled water (plastics, recycling, corporations, tap/spring, regulations, etc.).