Attempts to create a sustainable society strive to

25. Attempts to create a sustainable society strive to achieve what?
a. Greater resource consumption
b. Stable resource consumption
c. Negative population growth
d. Restrictions on technology
26. What represents Earth’s “modern commons”? 27. According to the law of supply and demand, what would occur if the
supply of copper declined but the demand stayed the same?
28. Which of the following is a “developing” nation?
29. The Tigris-Euphrates River basin collapsed, in part because the
overworked soil became waterlogged and contaminated by salts. Which of the
following influenced that collapse?

a. Hunter- gatherers
b. The Agricultural Revolution
c. The Industrial Revolution
d. The Information Revolution
30. If the human population continues to grow, all of the following could occur
except increased
31. Which of the following resources is a renewable resource? 32. Which of the following is a renewable resource that is in danger of being
used up faster than it can replace itself?
**Chapter Three - The Geosphere **
1. Earth’s thin outer layer
a. Erosion
b. Magma
c. Crust
d. Mudflow
2. A break in Earth’s crust 3. The pieces of Earth’s crust that compose the lithosphere 4. Layer of Earth between the crust and the core

d. Upper crust
5. The area where two tectonic plates move towards one creating a subduction
zone is known as a:
a. Convergent boundary
b. Transform boundary
c. Divergent boundary
d. Fault
6. The area where two tectonic plates slide along one another is known as a 7. The area where two tectonic plates move apart from one another is known as a 8. Volcanoes occur at tectonic plate boundaries that are
9. The narrow layer of Earth where life-supporting conditions exist is called the
a. Crust
b. Surface zone
c. Troposphere
d. Biosphere
10. Famous transform boundary (fault) running through the state of California