Environmental Science 1401

Exam 1 Review Guide: Exam 1 covers chapters 1, 2 and 3 and will consist of 50 multiple choices, fill in the blank, diagram

and true/false questions. The following topics could be on the Exam. You should read through the

textbook chapters and your class notes to prepare. Bring a scantron, pencil and calculator for the

exam. You cannot share calculators or use your cell phone calculator.

Chapter 1: What is exponential growth? What are the results of exponential growth? What is the current world

population? rule of 70; doubling time equation; sustainability; IPAT model; environmental

science; Garrett Hardin and the tragedy of the commons; stewardship; renewable resources

(examples); nonrenewable resources (examples); sustainable yield; environmental degradation;

ecological footprint; steps to solving environmental problems.

Chapter 2: utilitarian conservationist; biocentric preservationist; NEPA; Rachel Carson; DDT and impacts of

long-term exposure; Is DDT illegal in the United States? Why or why not? First Earth day;

CERCLA; northern spotted owl; John James Audubon; Dust Bowl; General Revision Act;

Theodore Roosevelt; Aldo Leopold; Wallace Stegner; Environmental Impact Statement; frontier

attitude; misperception of soil; environmental legislation after 1970 (NEPA; CAA; CWA; RCRA,

TSCA; CERCLA; SDWA; etc.); command and control solutions; Sierra Club and the Hetch

Hetchy Valley;

Chapter 3: ecology; organisms; species; populations; habitats; community; biome; cell; Prokaryotes,

Eukaryotes; Stromatolites; components of the biosphere; Ecotone; Thermohaline circulation;

chemical and physical changes and types/examples; limiting factors for terrestrial and aquatic

environments; environments; abiotic; biotic; composition of the atmosphere and atmospheric

layers; energy: potential vs. kinetic; law of conservation of matter; 1st law of thermodynamics;

2nd law of thermodynamics; chemosynthesis; aurora borealis and Australis; lithosphere;

producers; consumers; herbivores; carnivores; omnivores; scavengers; Detritivores; biodiversity

and types of biodiversity; food web; food chain; range of tolerance; decline of the honeybee; Ernest

Haeckel and Aldo Leopold; parthenogenesis; genetic diversity; hydrologic cycle; what does

sunlight provide? Hydrothermal vents; ecotone;