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History of Environmental Problems  \n• describe changes that occurred in human population distribution, employment, and relationships between societies as the Agricultural Revolution unfolded  \n• discuss the Industrial Revolution, focusing on changes in energy consumption  \n• compare and contrast hunter-gatherer societies, agricultural societies, and industrial societies and the impact of their societies on the environment  \n• construct a timeline showing the relationship between environmental change and cultural change  \n5. Case Study: Tragedy of the Commons  \n• distinguish among non-renewable, renewable, and potentially renewable resources; products that can be reduced, reused and recycled; point source of pollution and non-point source of pollution; and degradable, slowly degradable, and non-degradable pollutants  \n• analyze interactions among population, resources, technology, and pollution  \n6. Public Lands  \n• compare and contrast \"conservation\" and \"preservation\"  \n• define \"conservation biology\" and \"ecological integrity\"  \n• recognize that conservation is guided in part by application of ethical principles  \n• describe the types of public lands in the United States, the challenges that face each type, and how the challenges are currently being managed  \n7. Science  \n• discuss the difference between science and non-science  \n• explain the differences between science and technology  \n• analyze a list and flow chart that represent the Scientific Method  \n• apply the use of models in environmental science  \n8. Environmental Economics  \n• describe the relationship among natural resources, manufactured capital, and human capital  \n• identify negative externalities in a product life cycle  \n• compare and contrast economic systems  \n• evaluate measurement systems for valuing economies  \n9. 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