GEOG 350 Midterm 1 Questions with
Correct Answers Graded A+ Latest 2025-
2026 (Fully Verified)
1. What is environmental science? Correct Answer: the systematic study of our environment
and our place in it -
2. The UN population division predicts that the world population will stabilize by what
year? Correct Answer: *2050 -
3. Ecosystem services - Correct Answer: the services/resources provided by environmental
systems usually we rely on them without thinking about them.
4. the tragedy of the commons- Correct Answer: situation in which people acting
individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources,
creating disaster for the entire community
5. --no insentive to conserve the resource.
6. sustainability- Correct Answer: a search for ecological stability and human progress that
can last over the long term
7. meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs
8. sustainable development- Correct Answer: the idea that economic improvement for the
world's poorest populations is possible without destroying the environment.
9. science depends on... - Correct Answer: skepticism and reproducibility
,10. deductive reasoning- Correct Answer: logical reasoning from general to specific
11. inductive reasoning- Correct Answer: reasoning from many observations to produce a
general rule (not good)
12. Carl Sagan- Correct Answer: planet research- surface and weather of mars, weather of
venus (greenhouse effect) Saturns moon could have water;
UFO research (no aliens interested in Earth);
show original cosmos
global warming
13. Plato & the environment. - Correct Answer: noted the affects of environmental
degredation in ancient greece
"Man and Nature"- Correct Answer:
1864
George Perkins Marsh
environmental movement in N. america
Advisor to prez teddy roosevelt
conservationist
1st chief of the u.s. forest service - Correct Answer: *Gifford Pinchot
Naturalist who believed the wilderness should be preserved in its natural state.
He was largely responsible for the creation of Yosemite National Park in California.
National parks service
advised teddy as well
1st prez of the sierra club
, opposed pinchot's utilitarian policies
*preservationalist - Correct Answer: john muir
using the land as long as it can be conserved for future use.
--teddy roosevelt - Correct Answer: Utilitarian Conservationist
john muir
intrinsic right of all organisms to exist. - Correct Answer: *preservationist
in the west (of the rockies) - Correct Answer: *where is all the public land?
wrote A Sand County Almanac published a year after his death in 1948; promoted a "Land
Ethic" in which humans are ethically responsible for serving as the protectors of nature. -
Correct Answer: Aldo Leopold
led to the modern environmental movement. - Correct Answer: Rising pollution levels...
12,000 deaths - Correct Answer: 1952 london coal burning
1962 published "a Silent Spring": about ddt in chem. ag.
--credited largely for launching the modern environmental movement - Correct Answer:
Rachel Carson
a broad-spectrum herbicide; it is the active ingredient in Roundup
-GMOs create "round up ready" plants
-recently shown to cause cancer - Correct Answer: glyphosate
modern day John-Muir;
Correct Answers Graded A+ Latest 2025-
2026 (Fully Verified)
1. What is environmental science? Correct Answer: the systematic study of our environment
and our place in it -
2. The UN population division predicts that the world population will stabilize by what
year? Correct Answer: *2050 -
3. Ecosystem services - Correct Answer: the services/resources provided by environmental
systems usually we rely on them without thinking about them.
4. the tragedy of the commons- Correct Answer: situation in which people acting
individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources,
creating disaster for the entire community
5. --no insentive to conserve the resource.
6. sustainability- Correct Answer: a search for ecological stability and human progress that
can last over the long term
7. meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs
8. sustainable development- Correct Answer: the idea that economic improvement for the
world's poorest populations is possible without destroying the environment.
9. science depends on... - Correct Answer: skepticism and reproducibility
,10. deductive reasoning- Correct Answer: logical reasoning from general to specific
11. inductive reasoning- Correct Answer: reasoning from many observations to produce a
general rule (not good)
12. Carl Sagan- Correct Answer: planet research- surface and weather of mars, weather of
venus (greenhouse effect) Saturns moon could have water;
UFO research (no aliens interested in Earth);
show original cosmos
global warming
13. Plato & the environment. - Correct Answer: noted the affects of environmental
degredation in ancient greece
"Man and Nature"- Correct Answer:
1864
George Perkins Marsh
environmental movement in N. america
Advisor to prez teddy roosevelt
conservationist
1st chief of the u.s. forest service - Correct Answer: *Gifford Pinchot
Naturalist who believed the wilderness should be preserved in its natural state.
He was largely responsible for the creation of Yosemite National Park in California.
National parks service
advised teddy as well
1st prez of the sierra club
, opposed pinchot's utilitarian policies
*preservationalist - Correct Answer: john muir
using the land as long as it can be conserved for future use.
--teddy roosevelt - Correct Answer: Utilitarian Conservationist
john muir
intrinsic right of all organisms to exist. - Correct Answer: *preservationist
in the west (of the rockies) - Correct Answer: *where is all the public land?
wrote A Sand County Almanac published a year after his death in 1948; promoted a "Land
Ethic" in which humans are ethically responsible for serving as the protectors of nature. -
Correct Answer: Aldo Leopold
led to the modern environmental movement. - Correct Answer: Rising pollution levels...
12,000 deaths - Correct Answer: 1952 london coal burning
1962 published "a Silent Spring": about ddt in chem. ag.
--credited largely for launching the modern environmental movement - Correct Answer:
Rachel Carson
a broad-spectrum herbicide; it is the active ingredient in Roundup
-GMOs create "round up ready" plants
-recently shown to cause cancer - Correct Answer: glyphosate
modern day John-Muir;
