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Questions and Answers of Environmental Economics

How is biotic potential related to the rate at which a population will grow?
What is an estuary? Why are estuaries important?
List three differences between freshwater and marine ecosystems.
Which of the following organisms functions only in the euphotic zone: seaweed, crabs, phytoplankton, fish?
What is the role of each of the following organisms in a marine ecosystem:phytoplankton, zooplankton, algae, coral animals, and fish?
What areas of the ocean are the most productive?
How does height above sea level affect the kind of biome present?
What two primary factors determine the kind of terrestrial biome that will develop in an area?
List two biotic characteristics typical of each of the following biomes:tropical rainforest, desert, tundra, taiga, savanna, Mediterranean shrublands, tropical dry forest, temperate grassland,
List two abiotic characteristics typical of each of the following biomes: tropical rainforest, desert, tundra, taiga, savanna, Mediterranean shrublands, tropical dry forest, temperate grassland,
How does a climax community differ from a successional community?
Describe the process of succession. How does primary succession differ from secondary succession?
Much of the old-growth forest in the United States has been logged, economic gains have been realized, and second-growth forests have become established. This is not the case in the tropical
The text says that about half of the old-growth temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest has been logged. What to do with the remaining forest is still a question. Some say it should be logged,
Imagine you are a conservation biologist who is being asked by local residents what the likely environmental outcomes of development would be in the tropical rainforest in which they live. What would
Identify the biome in which you live. What environmental factors are instrumental in maintaining this biome? What is the current health of your biome? What are the current threats to its health? How
What do you think about restoring ecosystems that have been degraded by human activity? Should it be done or not? Why? Who should pay for this reconstruction?
Does the concept of a “climax community” make sense? Why or why not?
Describe how each of the following is involved in the phosphorus cycle: phosphorus in rock, producer, consumer, animal waste, respiration, and decomposer.
List three ways humans have altered the nitrogen cycle.
Describe how each of the following is involved in the nitrogen cycle:atmospheric nitrogen, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, nitrifying bacteria, denitrifying bacteria, producer, protein, consumer, and
List three changes to the carbon cycle caused by human activity.
Describe how each of the following is involved in the carbon cycle:carbon dioxide, producer, organic compounds, consumer, respiration, and decomposer.
Describe a food chain and a food web.
How is the concept of trophic levels related to energy flow in an ecosystem?
What distinguishes a keystone species from other species in an ecosystem?
Give examples of organisms that are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
What roles do producers, consumers, and decomposers fulfill in an ecosystem?
How do the concepts of ecosystem and community differ?
What do parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism have in common?How are they different?
Describe the difference between interspecific and intraspecific competition.
List five predators and their prey organisms.
Give an example of coevolution.
Why does extinction occur?
What is speciation and why does it occur?
How is natural selection related to the concept of niche?
Describe how genetic differences, number of offspring, and death are related to the concept of natural selection.
How are the concepts of population and species similar?
Describe, in detail, the niche of a human.
How is an organism’s niche different from its habitat?
Describe a primary limiting factor for reptiles.
List three abiotic and three biotic factors of your environment.
Polar bears hunt seals from ice and have been placed on the endangered species list due to warming temperatures. Why has the habitat of the polar bear changed?
Some people predict that the available sources of phosphorus from mines will be exhausted in the next 50 years. Describe what changes are likely to occur in ecosystems if phosphorus is not available.
Many people in the world have very little protein in their diet. They are often able to grow crops to feed themselves but do not raise cattle or other sources of meat. Describe why these people are
Are all kinds of energy equal in their capacity to bring about changes? Why or why not?
List five kinds of energy.
How do solids, liquids, and gases differ from one another at the molecular level?
State the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
What happens to atoms during a chemical reaction?
Diagram an atom of oxygen and label its parts.
How are the second law of thermodynamics and pollution related?
What is the scientific method, and what processes does it involve?
Why are events that happen only once difficult to analyze from a scientific point of view?
What is a hypothesis? Why is it an important part of the way scientists think?
How do scientific disciplines differ from nonscientific disciplines?
Some scientists argue that living organisms constantly battle against the principles of the second law of thermodynamics using the principles of the first law of thermodynamics. What might they mean
The text points out that incandescent lightbulbs are only 5–10 percent efficient at using energy to accomplish their task, while new, initially more expensive, compact fluorescent lighting uses
How important are the first and second laws of thermodynamics to explaining environmental issues? Using the concepts in these laws of thermodynamics, try to explain a particular environmental
Increasingly, environmental issues such as global climate change are moving to the forefront of world concern. What role should science play in public policy decisions? How should we decide between
Given the experiment you proposed in Critical Thinking Question 1, imagine some results that would support that hypothesis. Now imagine you are a different scientist, one who is very skeptical of the
You observe that a high percentage of frogs, which are especially sensitive to environmental poisons, in small ponds in your agricultural region have birth defects. Suspecting agricultural chemicals
What kinds of risks are most willingly accepted by people?
Give examples of subsidies, market-based instruments, and life cycle analysis.
Define the problem of common property resource ownership.Provide some examples.
Differentiate between pollution costs and pollution-prevention costs.
What are some of the concerns about the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental decision making?
What is incorporated in a cost-benefit analysis?
List four ways in which environmental systems differ from economic systems.
Give environmental examples of deferred costs, external costs, and opportunity costs.
Define and give examples of ecosystem services.
Describe how the supply of a good or service and the demand for it interact to determine the price.
Define natural resources and give examples of renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Give examples of risk management activities.
List three environmental factors that have major worldwide health impacts.
What tools are used to help characterize the risk of environmental factors such as toxins?
What factors are used to characterize a risk?
If you owned a small business in the United States and were looking to expand your business within your home state, would you consider purchasing a contaminated piece of property in a downtown or
Should our policies reflect an interest in preserving resources for future generations? If so, what level of resources should be preserved?What would you be willing to do without in order to save for
Is current worldwide growth and development sustainable? If there were less growth, what would be the effect on developing countries?How could we achieve a just distribution of resources and still
Looking at your own life, what kinds of risks do you take? What kinds are you unwilling to take? What criteria do you use to make a decision about acceptable and unacceptable risk?
Do you think environmentalists should or should not stretch traditional cost-benefit analysis to include how development affects the environment? What are the benefits to this? The risks?
Imagine you are an independent economist who is conducting a costbenefit analysis of a hydroelectric project. What might be the costs of this project? The benefits? How would you quantify the costs
Granting polluting industries or countries the right to buy and sell emissions permits is a controversial idea. Some argue that the market is the best way to limit pollution. Others argue that trade
Imagine you were assessing the risk of a new chemical plant being built along the Mississippi River in Louisiana. Identify some of the risks that you would want to assess. What kinds of data would
Why do you suppose some carcinogenic agents, such as those in cigarettes, are so difficult to regulate?
If you were a regulatory official, what kind of information would you require to make a decision about whether a certain chemical was“safe” or not? What level of risk would you deem acceptable
Is the triple bottom line a realistic concept in the corporate world?
Where does global environmental ethics fit in the broad scheme of environmental protection?
How can individuals implement environmental ethics in their own lives?
How can individuals direct business toward better environmental practices?
What are the conflicts between corporate behavior and environmental ethics?
Why is environmental justice part of the environmental movement?
Describe three common attitudes toward the environment found in modern society.
Describe three types of environmental ethics developed by philosophers.
Why does the environmental crisis demand a new ethic?
Reread Focus On Early Philosophers of Nature. Is the environmental crisis in certain respects a problem in ethics? Does philosophy have a role to play in helping to solve the problem? Should
Wangari Maathai led a protest movement against the stripping of African forests. Are environmental issues important enough for citizens to become activists and perhaps break the law? How could an
In 1997 Ojibwa Indians in northern Wisconsin sat on the railroad tracks to block a shipment of sulfuric acid from crossing their reservation on its way to a controversial copper mine in Michigan. Try
Imagine you are a business executive who wants to pursue an environmental policy for your company that limits pollution and uses fewer raw materials but would cost more. What might be the discussion

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