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Name: ____________________________________
Date: ___________________________
What Are Our Main Environmental Problems?
3 Main Groups of Environmental Problems
1. _____________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________
What is considered our “modern commons’? ____________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS: LOOK AT FACT SHEET #4 RENEWABLE AND NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES. Each group will be
assigned a topic and will need to present their findings to the class.
1. What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources? Provide 2 examples for each.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES
ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
What is meant by the word “economics”? ____________________________
Supply and Demand
Characteristics/Description
How does this idea relate to
ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE?
Costs and Benefits
Risk Assessment
OVERALL REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. ________ An important effect that hunter-gatherer societies may have had on the environment was
A. soil erosion
B. extinction
C. air pollution
D. All of the above
2. _________ An important effect of the agricultural revolution was
A. soil erosion
B. habitat destruction
C. plant and animal domestication
D. All of the above
3.___________ Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of the Industrial Revolution?
A. Fossil fuels become important energy sources.
B. The amount of land and labor needed to produce food increased.
C. Artificial substances replaced some animal and plant products.
D. Machines replaced human muscle and animal power.
4. __________ All of the following are renewable resources EXCEPT
A. energy from the sun.
B. minerals.
C. crops
D. fresh water.
5. ___________ In his essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” one factor that Garrett Hardin failed to consider
was
A. the destruction of natural resources.
B. human self interest
C. the social nature of humans
D. None of the above
6. ____________ The term used to describe the productive area of Earth needed to support the lifestyle of
one person in a particular country is called
A. supply and demand
B. the ecological footprint
C. the consumption crisis
D. sustainability
SHORT ANSWER QUESTION:
1. In what ways are today’s environmental resources like the commons described in the essay “The Tragedy of the
Commons”?
2. How could environmental concerns conflict with your desire to improve your standard of living?