BSC 3052 Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) Conservation biology - Correct Answers ✅a multidisciplinary science concerned with detecting problem and evaluating solutions.crisis discipline - Correct Answers ✅decisions need to made quickly and with limited information Henry David Thoreau - Correct Answers ✅-opposed materialism and abolitionism -lived in a cabin and wrote to walden about his experiences -his idea was to simplify -integrate nature and culture (romantic- transcendental conservation) John Muir - Correct Answers ✅-preservation -natural areas have value superior to material gain from exploitation -created national parks (yellow stone and yosemite) -believed biological communities depend on each other and evolve together Gifford Pinchot - Correct Answers ✅head of the U.S. Forest Service under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them
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BSC 3052 Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) Aldo Leopald - Correct Answers ✅(evolutionary-ecologic land ethic) rejects strictly human centered view of environment, focus on preservation of healthy ecosystems.preservation - Correct Answers ✅advocacy of allowing some land and creatures to exist without human intervention; a prominent view in the 1960s (leave it alone) conservation - Correct Answers ✅advocacy of the careful use of natural resources (includes forestry, some kinds of agriculture, and the "wise-use" movement) environmentalism - Correct Answers ✅a movement concerned with the impact of humans (and their lifestyles) on the environment, especially on air and water quality pre history ideas of conservation biology - Correct Answers ✅1. References in the bible
- Plato recognized effects of humans on forests and soils
- local threats to resource depletion led to rules or laws
romantic-transcendental conservation ethic - Correct Answers ✅communion with nature brings people closer to God; it is morally superior to cutting down livestock; saw God 2 / 3
BSC 3052 Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) in nature and believed he was protecting something spiritually important to us as humans resource conservation ethic - Correct Answers ✅nature consists of natural resources to be used for the greatest good by the largest number of people; nature was created for the benefit of humans; advocate wise, judicious (sustainable) use of natural resources Evolutionary-Ecological Land Ethic - Correct Answers ✅humans are just one product of evolution, not distinct from evolutionary creation; humans are an integral part of nature synthetic pesticides adopted for agriculture - Correct Answers ✅1950 DDT (biomagnification we consume a lot) Rachel Carson, Silent Spring - Correct Answers ✅the central problem of our age has become the contamination of man's total environment with substances of incredible potential for harm the ecological society of america - Correct Answers ✅1915; from its beginning, there is some disagreement
about its mission: should it exist only to support ecologists
and publish research or should it also pursue an agenda to preserve natural areas
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