ENVS 101 – Spring 2005
What does it mean to be “connected”?
What on earth is the world?
What in the world is the earth?
What is a system?
What are the five major subsystems of the
earth?
What are the three states of matter and what
do they matter?
Which parts of the earth are living and which
are non-living?
What does biotic and abiotic
mean?
What flows between the earth’s five major
subsystems?
What kind of world do you want?
What is the GEO yearbook?
What is sustainable development?
Who are the Nacirema
(careful….)?
What is the Sociosphere?
What is ethnocentrism?
What is a story?
What is a scenario?
What’s the difference between a story and
scenario?
What is a legacy?
What are the three types of decisions that
affect public health and the environment?
How do humans make decisions?
What is cost benefit analysis?
What does quantitative mean?
What does qualitative mean?
What’s the difference between incandescent
and compact fluorescent bulbs?
How does inertia affect decision making?
What is our cultural story?
What is the peace keeping law?
What does the peace keeping law promote?
What’s the difference between Takers and
Leavers?
What is Ishmael’s re-interpretation of the
Genesis story?
Why is it important to learn how to use
Internet information search strategies?
What is eco-efficiency?
What are the three principles of the Next
Industrial Revolution?
What is a biological nutrient cycle?
What is a technical nutrient cycle?
What is the difference between a biological
and technical nutrient cycle?
What is a product of consumption?
What is a product of service?
What are the ways of knowing
What is science?
How does science differ from other ways of
knowing?
What is the formula for environmental impact?
What is a technology?
What are some of the key elements of
historical population growth?
What is average life expectancy?
What’s the world current population?
What is the projected population by 2050?
What is carrying capacity?
Which resources are “natural” resources?
What’s the difference between renewable and
non-renewable resources?
What do humans make from natural resources?
What is consumption?
What are the eleven resource consuming human
activities?
What three resources are the most necessary
for human survival?
What does per capita mean?
What are the world’s three consuming classes?
How are they different?
Is the consumption gap between the world’s
classes increasing or decreasing?
Is the income gap between the world’s classes
increasing or decreasing?
What is “Over-consumption”?
What is voluntary simplicity?
What is the environment?
What’s the difference between early definitions
and today’s definition of the environment?
What’s the difference between environment and
nature
What is environmental science?
How does society solve environmental problems?
What is environmental policy?
What is environmental technology?
What is environmental education?
How is environmental science conservative?
How is environmental science urban?
How is environmental science global?
What is environmental change?
What is pollution?
What are the two types of pollution sources?
How are they different?
What are the effects of pollution?
What three factors determine the severity of
pollution?
What is pollution remediation?
What is pollution control?
What is pollution prevention?
How does the rate of consumption increase
compare to that of population increase?
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the chief
occupation was?
What was the important element of the
Industrial Revolution?
What engine ushered in the Industrial
Revolution?
What fuel source ushered in the Industrial
Revolution?
What is the Eco-Technology Revolution?
What are the 10 technology types of the
Eco-Technology Revolution?
What do William McDonough and Michael Braungart want to do to building and products?
The atmosphere is what kind of matter?
What are the major component elements of the
atmosphere?
What is the difference between the lower and
upper atmospheres?
What are the three layers of the lower
atmosphere?
What does carbon dioxide do in the
atmosphere?
What does ozone do in the atmosphere?
What does water vapor do in the atmosphere?
What do particulates do in the atmosphere?
What is indoor pollution?
What are the 11 different types of indoor
pollution?
What are some of the technologies used to
control indoor pollution?
What are local air toxics?
What are some of the technologies that
control air toxics?