History of the Environment Questions

Aldo Leopold wrote in a Sand County Almanac, "We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain." What does he mean by that? And what does he mean when Leopold wrote, "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives along in a world of wounds."

The 1960s and 1970s produced major environmental legislation including the Clean Air Act (1963); the Wilderness Act (1964); the Clean Water Act (1964); National Wild & Scenic Rivers and National Historic Trails Act (1968); the National Environmental Policy Act (1970) and the Endangered Species Act (1973). With these legislative triumphs why are environmentalists disillusioned? Have these acts been effective? Have they changed American society?

The competition in which churches' attempts to bring people back into their congregations by way of special events, door prizes, and free food were collectively known as the "________ __________."

Nixon's first major accomplishment was victory in ______________.

The first of Nixon's breakthroughs in relations with Communist countries came with ______________________.

As a part of Nixon's "War on Drugs," Congress passed _______________________________.

Which of the following regulated the dumping of toxins into waterways with the goal of making them "fishable" and "swimmable" within a few years?

Who was the first man to step on the surface of the moon?

Which of the NASA space programs placed a man on the moon in 1969?

Which of the following church leaders claimed Fundamentalism had been mistaken to avoid social issues?

The National Environmental Policy Act established _____________________.

The war between what two nations brought the United States and China into closer relations? [choose 2]

The "Nixon Doctrine" as related to the Cold War and relations with the Soviet Union was ________________________.

Who was the Soviet Premier that met with President Nixon in 1972?

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the primary question causing tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was the _____________ arms race.

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The National Park Service reflects a ________ approach while the Forest Service reflects a ________ approach.

Pragmatic conservationists, including Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt, supported forest conservation in order to protect

Aldo Leopold and John Muir were considered ______ because they believed that nature should be protected and that all living things had a fundamental right to exist.

Which of the following natural resources is considered the most critical in terms of future supply and demand?