en unit 1

What is not an indicator of global environmental stress?

Decrease in toxic chemical abundance

What is a tool that is used to assess consumption of individuals and estimate the area requirement needed to support this amount of consumption?

Ecological Footprint

Humans have manipulated the earth for their own benefit for thousands of years. However much of the negative changes to our planet have occurred in the last few hundred years. What are the 3 reasons given that this drastic shift has occurred?

Extinctions, human population growth, materials introduced to earth

What is not an indicator of global environmental stress?

Forest regrowth

A form of logical thinking that uses related observations to derive conclusions can be described as

deductive reasoning

In science, a suggested explanation is a

hypothesis

The notion that land should not be treated as property, but instead should be considered part of the larger community is known as

land ethic

In a scientific experiment, a control is

neither A nor B

Treating the earth and environment like the resources contained within it are limited and humans should conserve resources for continued use is a

sustainability ethic

The synthesis of a large collection of information that is generally accepted, contains well-tested and verified hypotheses about certain aspects of the world is known as a scientific

theory