1. What does the term environment mean?

2. What are biotic factors?

    Abiotic factors?

3. Why study environmental science?  3 reasons

4. What are natural resources?

5. Know the terms and examples: renewable, non-depletable, non-renewable, depletable

6. What 3 advances allowed for the spectacular success of the human species?

7. What is meant by “common” resource?

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

Give some examples of resources that are currently being treated as “common”.

9. 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?

10. What is science?

11. What are the assumptions under which it works?

12. What are the steps of the scientific method?

    What is a hypothesis?  An experiment?

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

14. Why does science work so well?

15. What limits does science have?

16. What is a theory?

17. What does sustainable use mean?

18. What is a sustainable society?

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

What evidence indicates we don’t?

 20. What is an Ecological Footprint?