Test Review for Chapters 1 and 2
Vocabulary Terms:
Biotic
Abiotic
Biodiversity
Species
Environmental
indicators
Speciation
Anthropogenic
Ecological Footprint
Renewable Resources
Atom
Radioactive Decay
Acid
Potential energy
Element
Half-life
Base
Kinetic Energy
Energy Efficiency
Developing Country
Steady State
Negative feedback
Loop
Gross National
Product
Planetary
Management
Worldview
Organic
Compound
Covalent bond
pH
First Law of
Thermodynamics
Open system
Positive Feedback
Loop
Gross Domestic
Product
Environmental
Wisdom Worldview
Law of Conservation
of Matter
Stewardship
Worldview
Inorganic
Sustainability
Background
extinction
Non-renewable
Resources
Isotopes
Ionic bond
Entropy
Second Law of
Thermodynamics
Closed system
Developed Country
Gaia Hypothesis
Wealth Gap
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Questions:
1. Distinguish between developed countries and developing countries. Describe the wealth
gap between these groups of countries. What do GNP and GDP indicate about the
economic status of a country?
2. Distinguish between the following terms: nonrenewable, and renewable resources.
3. Define sustainability. Describe the relationship between sustainability and environmental
degradation. Describe the tragedy of the commons. Summarize some strategies to
alleviate this type of tragedy.
4. What is the purpose of calculating an ecological footprint?
5. Compare the five indicators for stress in natural systems. (See Table 1.2 in textbook.)
6. Describe a simple model of relationships among population, resource use (consumption),
technology, and environmental impact. What is affluenza?
7. Summarize the different environmental worldviews such as planetary management,
stewardship, and environmental wisdom worldviews.
8. Explain the Gaia Hypothesis developed by James Lovelock.
9. What is the difference between a positive and negative feedback loop? Give an example
of each.
10. Distinguish between potential and kinetic energy.
11. What is the law of conservation of matter? What is its importance to environmental
science?
12. Explain radioactive decay.
13. What are the challenges for environmental science?
14. Who are Rachel Carson, Garrett Hardin and James Lovelock?