ENV100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Habitat Fragmentation, Basalt, Keystone Species

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Barbara Murck

Document Summary

Question #1: in class we defined environment to include biotic and abiotic components, the built environment, and social/cultural institutions. Answer: (1 mark for each of three reasonable ways that social/cultural institutions influence the natural environment. Specific examples are not necessarily required, but how each of them is connected to the natural environment needs to be clear. ) Government policies, such as setting aside protected land or subsidizing resource extraction. Economic drivers such as poverty, which might lead a country to exploit its natural resources, for example. Cultural values, such as holding a certain natural location to be sacred or important traditional ecological knowledge: name one biotic and one abiotic component of the natural environment. Answer: (0. 5 marks for biotic; 0. 5 marks for abiotic not necessary to define them, just give an example. They need to be examples from the natural environment, not from the built environment, so buildings is not an appropriate example of an abiotic component, for example. )