Consider the section "We Can Live More Simply and Lightly on the Earth." Do you agree that many of the things we now feel are necessities are actually luxuries? Could you do without them, or are they now part of your necessities? How does your worldview affect your sense of what is necessary?
What will be an ideal response?
Most students are likely going to understand the list of "luxuries" (cars, televisions, cell phones, etc.) as truly necessities. The phrase from Gandhi ("The earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need, but not every person's greed.") might prove an interesting foil for discussion. The person should engage the word "enough" in some fashion. If there is no limit to enough then the accumulation of things has no boundaries.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What is the differential stress at 5 km depth for continental crust if we have a perfect lithostatic state of stress?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is a way in which water weakens earth materials?
A. absorption/adsorption B. weight of water C. ability to dissolve cement D. all of the choices are correct
If you are a marine biologist who wants to study organisms that are capable of chemosynthesis, where would you collect organisms for your research?
A) in mangrove forests B) near deep-ocean hydrothermal vents C) in kelp forests D) in the pelagic zone E) in estuaries