APES Flashcards

4955477750	Land owned by a community of government that is available for use by citizens is called a(n)	open access renewable resource	0
4955484280	Air, water, soil, plans and wind, as well as processes such as photosynthesis, are all examples of	natural capital	1
4955487860	The population of the world has been increasing...	exponentially	2
5337095703	The interdiscplinary subject that combies information from the physical sciences and the social sciences to learn how the Earth works is called	Environmental science	3
5337099500	Which factor is used by the United Nations to classify a nation as developed or developing?	Degree of industrialization	4
5337109478	What generalization about developing countries (LDCs) is true?	They use about 12% of the world's total resources	5
5337113604	An example of environmentally sustainable economic development is	pollution prevention	6
5337126434	If everyone on earth consumed resources at the same level as an average citizen of the US, we would need	Five more Earths	7
5337212600	We buy a table that is made from a beautiful tropical hardwood. The table's price is high. Even so, the price does not usually include	the cost to the environment of removing the tree that the lumber came from	8
5337216548	One millionth of a gram is a ____ gram	micro-	9
5337220096	According to the World Health Organization (WHO), poverty often results in premature death due to all of the following reasons except	the availability of clean drinking water	10
5337223075	Affluence results in a safer, often more environmentally managed society in all ways except	increased resource use	11
5337228833	The amount of biologically productive land and water neeeded to supply the people in a particular area with resources, and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by such resource use is called the	ecological footprint	12
5337231907	All of the following are tenants of the Principles of Sustainability except	fossil fuel recharging	13
5337234649	What is the current strategy regarding pollution?	emphasis should be placed on prevention since is works better and is cheaper in the long run than cleanup initiatives	14
5352039612	Small inputs of this substance, commonly a limiting factor in aquatic ecosystems, can result in algal blooms and dead zones.	Phosphorous	15
5352043059	Aerobic respiration requires	Glucose and oxygen	16
5352056972	Sulfur is added to the atmosphere in all the following ways	- Anaerobic Decomposition in Swamps - Sea Spray - From Volcanoes -from acid rain deposition	17
5352103453	Also known as mineralization, this process is carried out by decomposers and returns nutrients in organic matter back to the soil	Ammonification	18
5352155747	Fragmenting one large park or preserve into many small parks with human habitation in between them is most likely to lead to what?	reduction in species diversity	19
5352166393	An ecosystem can survive without...	Consumers	20
5352172721	The very necessary process of breaking down the dead bodies or wastes from organisms is the job of	Detrivores	21
5352184624	anthropogenic	Changes and pollution in nature that is caused by humans	22