TOPIC 9 OBJECTIVES

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

1. Describe how an environmental change may affect the living and non-living systems of our Earth.

2. Examine how technology has stressed the natural environment.

3 a. Define pollution. 

b. List 3 classes of pollution and identify examples of each.

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4. Identify a graph showing the human population changes over the past two thousand years.

5. Judge how exponential population growth has influenced:

-Pollution

-Technology

-Disease

-Food production

-Natural resources 

6. Generate ways people would be able to preserve our limited terrestrial resources. 

7. Describe how local and world politics have influenced environmental quality.

8. Identify examples of how alternative resources have been used to maintain our quality of life.

9. List reasons why continued research is needed to solve environmental problems.

10. Name two main types of human activities that may help to preserve environmental quality and improve our lives.

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