URI NRS 100 Exam 1
1.What is the World population in 2015?: 7 billion
2.Currently, what country has the highest birth rate?: Ethiopia
3.Currently, what country uses more natural resources per
capita?: United States
4.What is a Carbon Footprint?: A carbon foot print is an estimate of
the total amount of greenhouse gasses released by the activities of
individuals, populations, organizations or processes.
5.Are we using the planets natural resources in a sustainable or
non-sustain- able way?: Non-sustainable
6.What is the current average concentration of CO2 in the
atmosphere (ppm)?: 400ppm
7.What is the Greenhouse effect?: The greenhouse effect is the
process by which radiation from a planets atmosphere warms the
planets surface to a temperature above what is would be in the absence
of its atmosphere.
8.What percent of the earths surface is composed of water, and
what percent is land?: 70% water, 30% land.
9.What percent of the earths water is fresh and what percent is
salt water?: -
97.5% is salt water and 2.5% is fresh water.
10. what percent of the earths land surface is suitable for
growing food crops?-
: 10.8% arable land
11.Using normally renewable resources faster than nature can
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renew them is called .: degrading natural capital
12.More developed countries comprise .: 17% of the world's
population
13.All nonrenewable resources can theoretically be .:
exhausted or deplet- ed
14. T or F. The three overarching themes relating to the long-
term sustainability of life on this planet are solar energy,
biodiversity, and chemical cycling.: True.
15.Each of the three major cultural revolutions has allowed .:
expansion of the human population.
16.High quality energy is constantly .: becoming low quality energ
17.What is the term for the portion of the earth's atmosphere,
hydrosphere, and geosphere where life is found?: biosphere
18.Ecology is the study of .: how organisms interact with each other
and the nonliving environment
19.Each trophic level in a food chain or food web contains a
certain amount of organic matter, called .: biomass
20.True or False, the transfer of energy through food chains or
webs is very efficient, making a lot of energy available to
organisms.: False.
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1.What is the World population in 2015?: 7 billion
2.Currently, what country has the highest birth rate?: Ethiopia
3.Currently, what country uses more natural resources per
capita?: United States
4.What is a Carbon Footprint?: A carbon foot print is an estimate of
the total amount of greenhouse gasses released by the activities of
individuals, populations, organizations or processes.
5.Are we using the planets natural resources in a sustainable or
non-sustain- able way?: Non-sustainable
6.What is the current average concentration of CO2 in the
atmosphere (ppm)?: 400ppm
7.What is the Greenhouse effect?: The greenhouse effect is the
process by which radiation from a planets atmosphere warms the
planets surface to a temperature above what is would be in the absence
of its atmosphere.
8.What percent of the earths surface is composed of water, and
what percent is land?: 70% water, 30% land.
9.What percent of the earths water is fresh and what percent is
salt water?: -
97.5% is salt water and 2.5% is fresh water.
10. what percent of the earths land surface is suitable for
growing food crops?-
: 10.8% arable land
11.Using normally renewable resources faster than nature can
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, URI NRS 100 Exam 1
renew them is called .: degrading natural capital
12.More developed countries comprise .: 17% of the world's
population
13.All nonrenewable resources can theoretically be .:
exhausted or deplet- ed
14. T or F. The three overarching themes relating to the long-
term sustainability of life on this planet are solar energy,
biodiversity, and chemical cycling.: True.
15.Each of the three major cultural revolutions has allowed .:
expansion of the human population.
16.High quality energy is constantly .: becoming low quality energ
17.What is the term for the portion of the earth's atmosphere,
hydrosphere, and geosphere where life is found?: biosphere
18.Ecology is the study of .: how organisms interact with each other
and the nonliving environment
19.Each trophic level in a food chain or food web contains a
certain amount of organic matter, called .: biomass
20.True or False, the transfer of energy through food chains or
webs is very efficient, making a lot of energy available to
organisms.: False.
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