BSC 3052 EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Conservation biology
Answer:
a multidisciplinary science concerned with detecting problem and evaluating
solutions.
Question:
2. crisis discipline
Answer:
decisions need to made quickly and with limited information
Question:
3. Henry David Thoreau
Answer:
-opposed materialism and abolitionism
-lived in a cabin and wrote to walden about his experiences
-his idea was to simplify
-integrate nature and culture
(romantic- transcendental conservation)
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4. John Muir
Answer:
-preservation
-natural areas have value superior to material gain from exploitation
-created national parks (yellow stone and yosemite)
-believed biological communities depend on each other and evolve together
Question:
5. Gifford Pinchot
Answer:
head of the U.S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible
to make use of natural resources while conserving them
- (resource conservation ethic)
, Question:
6. Aldo Leopald
Answer:
(evolutionary-ecologic land ethic) rejects strictly human centered view of
environment, focus on preservation of healthy ecosystems.
Question:
7. preservation
Answer:
advocacy of allowing some land and creatures to exist without human
intervention; a prominent view in the 1960s (leave it alone)
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8. conservation
Answer:
advocacy of the careful use of natural resources (includes forestry, some kinds of
agriculture, and the "wise-use" movement)
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9. environmentalism
Answer:
a movement concerned with the impact of humans (and their lifestyles) on the
environment, especially on air and water quality
Question:
10. pre history ideas of conservation biology
Answer:
1. References in the bible
2. Plato recognized effects of humans on forests and soils
3. local threats to resource depletion led to rules or laws
Question:
11. romantic-transcendental conservation ethic
Answer:
communion with nature brings people closer to God; it is morally superior to
cutting down livestock; saw God in nature and believed he was protecting
something spiritually important to us as humans
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Conservation biology
Answer:
a multidisciplinary science concerned with detecting problem and evaluating
solutions.
Question:
2. crisis discipline
Answer:
decisions need to made quickly and with limited information
Question:
3. Henry David Thoreau
Answer:
-opposed materialism and abolitionism
-lived in a cabin and wrote to walden about his experiences
-his idea was to simplify
-integrate nature and culture
(romantic- transcendental conservation)
Question:
4. John Muir
Answer:
-preservation
-natural areas have value superior to material gain from exploitation
-created national parks (yellow stone and yosemite)
-believed biological communities depend on each other and evolve together
Question:
5. Gifford Pinchot
Answer:
head of the U.S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible
to make use of natural resources while conserving them
- (resource conservation ethic)
, Question:
6. Aldo Leopald
Answer:
(evolutionary-ecologic land ethic) rejects strictly human centered view of
environment, focus on preservation of healthy ecosystems.
Question:
7. preservation
Answer:
advocacy of allowing some land and creatures to exist without human
intervention; a prominent view in the 1960s (leave it alone)
Question:
8. conservation
Answer:
advocacy of the careful use of natural resources (includes forestry, some kinds of
agriculture, and the "wise-use" movement)
Question:
9. environmentalism
Answer:
a movement concerned with the impact of humans (and their lifestyles) on the
environment, especially on air and water quality
Question:
10. pre history ideas of conservation biology
Answer:
1. References in the bible
2. Plato recognized effects of humans on forests and soils
3. local threats to resource depletion led to rules or laws
Question:
11. romantic-transcendental conservation ethic
Answer:
communion with nature brings people closer to God; it is morally superior to
cutting down livestock; saw God in nature and believed he was protecting
something spiritually important to us as humans
