Ch 4 Study Guide

List 4 renewable energy resources

Human contributions to global climate warming are primarily from ________?

The contemporary view of nature dominant in the U.S. is most strongly linked to what tradition?

The lower an organism on the food chain, ________?

The foundations of the U.S. environmental movement of the 20th century are drawn from the ideas of ________?

At what point in history was the view of nature as a nurturing and bountiful mother was replaced by a view in which it was subordinate to man and something to be exploited?

The book, Silent Spring, explores the environmental impacts of ________?

A tool with which early Stone Age (Paleolithic) people extensively altered their environment was ________?

The Clovis point helped North America's early peoples do what?

Among other differences, Neolithic peoples were separated from Paleolithic peoples by the ________ of ________.

The term magafauna is another way of referring to large ________.

The most reasonable explanation for the selective extinction of large animals like mastodons, mammoths, cave bears and giant deer at the end of the Pleistocene around 10,000 years ago is (are)?

The simplification of ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity began with?

Cities of ancient Mesopotamia in the Fertile Crescent grew and relied upon a vast irrigation network. It is thought that the region eventually collapsed about 4,000 years ago because of environmental ________.

The same problem that plagued early agricultural civilization in Mesopotamia currently plague contemporary irrigation agriculture from such places as California and SW Arizona to India and Central Asis. This problem is what?