Environmental Science Final Dr. Keil 212 Questions with Correct Answers
The "Story of Stuff" introduces the 5 step "materials economy". What are the steps and what are some of the key environmental and social problems associated with the steps? Correct Answer-Extraction- exploitation of resources 1/3 of the planet's natural resource space has been consumed, gone
Using more than I share, 5% of the world population, 30% of the world's
resources, we put our trash in 3rd world countries production
Distribution - store workers not paid enough consumption- national happiness plummeted and consumption rocketed disposal- burning toxins
Describe how the principle of I = PAT applies to environmental problems and solutions Correct Answer-Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology
How is an understanding of Genesis 2:15 shaped in light of fact that what is usually translated as "work" or "till" is in Hebrew "abad" and that what is usually translated as "care" or "keep" in Hebrew is "shamar". Correct Answer-The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.
How can a proper understanding of the so-called "Dominion Mandate" of Genesis 1:26 - 28 direct God's people from a misused of creation to a proper use? Correct Answer-26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,
[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule overthe fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
How can the model below help form an understanding of both proper human interactions with the environment as well as problematic ways humans interact with creation? Correct Answer-Model answer
Use the steps of the environmental pollution system to describe the issue
of municipal solid waste. Correct Answer-
Describe the 6 points that summarize the evidence that demonstrates climate change is a real problem. Correct Answer-1) Certain molecules absorb solar energy and convert to heart (Good!)
2) Human activities releasing these gases have increased dramatically in the last 150 years
3) Co2 sinks decreased insane time period 4) Concentration of these gasses increasing
5) Temperatures are increasing 6) Other lines of evidence showing the climate is changing
The "Story of Stuff" introduces the 5 step "materials economy". What are the steps and what are some of the key environmental and social problems associated with the steps? Correct Answer-Extraction- exploitation of resources 1/3 of the planet's natural resource space has been consumed, gone
Using more than I share, 5% of the world population, 30% of the world's
resources, we put our trash in 3rd world countries production
Distribution - store workers not paid enough consumption- national happiness plummeted and consumption rocketed disposal- burning toxins
Describe how the principle of I = PAT applies to environmental problems and solutions Correct Answer-Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology
How is an understanding of Genesis 2:15 shaped in light of fact that what is usually translated as "work" or "till" is in Hebrew "abad" and that what is usually translated as "care" or "keep" in Hebrew is "shamar". Correct Answer-The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.
How can a proper understanding of the so-called "Dominion Mandate" of Genesis 1:26 - 28 direct God's people from a misused of creation to a proper use? Correct Answer-26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,
[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule overthe fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
How can the model below help form an understanding of both proper human interactions with the environment as well as problematic ways humans interact with creation? Correct Answer-Model answer
Use the steps of the environmental pollution system to describe the issue
of municipal solid waste. Correct Answer-
Describe the 6 points that summarize the evidence that demonstrates climate change is a real problem. Correct Answer-1) Certain molecules absorb solar energy and convert to heart (Good!)
2) Human activities releasing these gases have increased dramatically in the last 150 years
3) Co2 sinks decreased insane time period 4) Concentration of these gasses increasing
5) Temperatures are increasing 6) Other lines of evidence showing the climate is changing
