1. What do the terms renewable and non-renewable mean when applied to natural resources?

What types of resources are renewable?

Non-renewable?

Can a resource be renewable and depletable?

2. What advances allowed for the spectacular growth of the human population?

What is the current human population? 

3. What is meant by the term “common resource?” 

What resources are currently treated this way?

4. What is the tragedy of the commons?  (Who proposed it?) 

5. What is the lesson of Easter Island?

Does it work as a metaphor for human society today and the Earth as a whole?   Why  or why not?

6. What is science?

7. What are the assumptions under which it works?

8. What are the steps of the scientific method?

    What is a hypothesis?  An experiment?

9. What are the differences between a manipulative experiment and a natural experiment?

10. What is peer review?

Why does science work so well? (2 reasons)

11. What is a theory?

12. What limits does science have?

13. What does sustainable use mean?

14. What is a sustainable society?

15. Do we have a sustainable society in the US?     The world as a whole?

What evidence indicates we don’t?  See table 1.1: Main findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

16. What is an Ecological Footprint?