Ecological Footprints Calculate

question 40

Multiple Choice

Ecological footprints calculate

• A) the amount of water and fossil fuel needed to support producers and consumers.
• B) the amount of land needed to support a population and absorb their waste.
• C) the amount of carbon that consumers require and produce as waste.
• D) the amount of land and water a population requires to produce the resources it consumes and assimilate the waste it produces.
• E) the damage left on an environment from using natural resources unwisely by a population.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a pause, without new learning trials.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning by which a stimulus that was previously neutral is paired with a conditioned stimulus to produce the same conditioned response as the original conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In biology, the end of an organism or of a group of organisms, normally a species; in psychology, the process through which a conditioned response is eliminated through repeated exposure without reinforcement.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response without prior conditioning.