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Undersired change in air, water or soil
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Pollution
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Humans lived tribes, using fires to maintain the prairie
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Hunter-gatherer period
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The study of living things and their interaction with their nonliving environment
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Ecology
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Plants and animals were deomstricted
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Agricultural revolution
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Society shifted to fossil fuels
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Industrial revolution
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Why is the worlds loss of biodiversity a source of concern?
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Humans depend upon other organisms for food and oxygen.
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Which of the following describes the depletion of a renewable resource?
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Intensive cultivation of farmland that exhausts soil nutrients mining coal
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The _____ was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution
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Overhunting of large mammals
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All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except
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Linuistics
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A focus of environmental science not studied in ecology is the
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Influence of humans on the environment
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During the agricultural revolution
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Plants and animals were domesticated
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Which of the following situations best describes the use of a renewable resource?
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Building wooden furniture
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In which country is th epoplation likely to be increasing most rapidly?
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Kenya
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Using scientific infomration from chemistry and biology to devise aplan to clean up a lake and make it halt again describes
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Environmental science
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During the _______ period(s) humans altered their habitats
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A. hunter-gatherer; b. agricultural revolution; c. industrial revolution; d.; humans and plants
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