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Environment and Humanity covers the material taught in a one-semester college course. This exam will require you to demonstrate the following abilities:
- Knowledge of basic facts and terms
- Understanding of concepts and principles
- Ability to apply the knowledge to specific case problems
Topics covered in this course are:
- Ecological Concepts
- Ecosystems
- Global ecology
- Atmospheric structure
- Roles of organisms
- Biodiversity and stability
- Energy flow
- Trophic levels
- Food chains and food webs
- Biogeochemical cycling
- Biomes and productivity
- Population biology
- Evolution
- succession in freshwater and terrestrial communities
- Environmental Impacts
- Human population growth
- Global climate and weather
- Greenhouse effect
- Ozone layer
- Pollution – physical, chemical, and biological aspects
- Environmental risk assessment
- Agricultural and industrial revolutions
- Industrial development of emerging nations
- Deforestation
- Desertification
- Eutrophication
- Environmental Management and Conversation
- Renewable and nonrenewable resources
- Green revolution
- Agricultural practices
- Pesticides and pest control
- Soil conservation and land use practices
- Air pollution control
- Drinking water quality and supply
- Wastewater treatment
- Solid and hazardous waste
- Recycling and resource recovery
- Industrial ecology
- Political Processes and the Future
- Environmental laws, policies, and ethics
- Planning and decision-making
- International policy conflicts and agreements
- Differing cultural and societal values
- Future issues of population, food supply, energy, and pollution
(Taken from “Environment and Humanity,” DSST Fact Sheet, Prometric, ©2007. [May 13, 2008]) |
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