Practice Quiz: Environment. 

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1. The thesis that many Third World countries cannot control major aspects of their economic life because of the dominance of industrialized societies.

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2. The tremendous increase in farming productivity that occurred beginning in the 1950s with the application of pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers and the development of plant varieties especially bred to respond to these chemical inputs.

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3. A geometric rate of progression which has the potential of producing a very fast rise (or an "explosion") in the numbers of a population experiencing such growth.

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4. A self-sustaining community of plants and animals within a natural environment.


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5. The number of a species that a particular ecosystem can support without suffering irreversible deterioration.

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6. A fertile region that has been made barren by the activities of human societies.

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7. The entropy law or the second law of thermodynamics--energy can only be transformed in one direction, from ordered to disordered. Entropy is also another name for pollution.


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8. The physical, biological and chemical restraints to which action is subject.

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9. Refers to the accumulation of noxious substances.

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10. The accumulation of gasses in the atmosphere that act like the glass roof of a greenhouse, letting sunlight in but trapping the radiant heat.

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