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ENV 1010.01 FALL 2010
Exam #1 Review
Exam #1 contains M/C, T/F, fill-in, matching, and short answer questions. The take-home ethics case study will pose discussion questions with longer answers.
Topics most likely to be covered are:
Textbook & Lecture Notes
Ch. 1 Environmental Interrelationships
Why is environmental studies multidisciplinary?
Explain, describe, give examples of… how inter-relatedness, inter-connectedness, inter-dependency are crucial to understanding how human choices and activities affect the natural environmental and its countless forms of life how and why economics and politics complicate environmental problems and make solutions more difficult environmental issues, questions, problems of global concern
Ch. 2 Environmental Ethics
Case study (take home)
Distinguish common environmental attitudes: development, preservation, and conservation
Pros and cons of sustainable development
Examples of environmental justice and injustice
Societal vs. Corporate environmental ethics
Green business concepts and actions
Individual environmental ethics
Ethics of consumption: positive and negative outcomes of consumption
Ch. 8 Energy and Civilization: Patterns of Consumption
Compare fossil fuels and our historical dependence on them, their uses, and their impact on the environment
Relationship between fossil fuels and the Industrial Revolution
Relationship of electricity and fossil fuels
Impact of the automobile on the environment
Patterns of consumption of developed nations vs. those of undeveloped / developing nations
Economics and politics of energy: energy prices in USA vs. other countries
Energy trends: how we extract, deliver, consume energy; what new technologies enable humans to extract, deliver, and consume energy
Ch. 9 Nonrenewable Energy Sources
Ultimate source of most non-renewable energy sources
Major energy sources (ultimate sources)
Origin of fossil fuels (coal vs. oil & natural gas)
Benefits
Exam #1 Review
Exam #1 contains M/C, T/F, fill-in, matching, and short answer questions. The take-home ethics case study will pose discussion questions with longer answers.
Topics most likely to be covered are:
Textbook & Lecture Notes
Ch. 1 Environmental Interrelationships
Why is environmental studies multidisciplinary?
Explain, describe, give examples of… how inter-relatedness, inter-connectedness, inter-dependency are crucial to understanding how human choices and activities affect the natural environmental and its countless forms of life how and why economics and politics complicate environmental problems and make solutions more difficult environmental issues, questions, problems of global concern
Ch. 2 Environmental Ethics
Case study (take home)
Distinguish common environmental attitudes: development, preservation, and conservation
Pros and cons of sustainable development
Examples of environmental justice and injustice
Societal vs. Corporate environmental ethics
Green business concepts and actions
Individual environmental ethics
Ethics of consumption: positive and negative outcomes of consumption
Ch. 8 Energy and Civilization: Patterns of Consumption
Compare fossil fuels and our historical dependence on them, their uses, and their impact on the environment
Relationship between fossil fuels and the Industrial Revolution
Relationship of electricity and fossil fuels
Impact of the automobile on the environment
Patterns of consumption of developed nations vs. those of undeveloped / developing nations
Economics and politics of energy: energy prices in USA vs. other countries
Energy trends: how we extract, deliver, consume energy; what new technologies enable humans to extract, deliver, and consume energy
Ch. 9 Nonrenewable Energy Sources
Ultimate source of most non-renewable energy sources
Major energy sources (ultimate sources)
Origin of fossil fuels (coal vs. oil & natural gas)
Benefits