Question 1

Which of the following is a form of natural capital gained directly or indirectly as a result of solar energy?

Accepted Answer

A)  Forests 
B)  flowing water and wind energy 
C)  wind energy only 
D)  coal and oil 
E)  forests, flowing water, wind energy, coal and oil.

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of recycling?

Accepted Answer

A)  collecting and remelting aluminum beer cans and making them into new cans 
B)  cleaning and refilling soft-drink bottles 
C)  selling used clothing at a garage sale 
D)  saving leftovers in a peanut butter jar 
E)  using household water to water a garden

Question 3

Perpetual resources exist in a fixed quantity or stock in the Earth's crust.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Developed countries

Accepted Answer

A)  are high-income 
B)  are low-income 
C)  use about 88% of the world's resources 
D)  make up about 80% of the world's population 
E)  Are high-income and use about 88% of the worlds resources

Question 5

Nonpoint sources of pollution

Accepted Answer

A)  enter ecosystems from single identifiable sources 
B)  are more difficult to control than point sources 
C)  include smokestacks and automobile exhaust pipes 
D)  are cheaper and easier to identify than point sources 
E)  are always found in rural areas

Question 6

In 2009, the world population is about

Accepted Answer

A)  6.0 billion people 
B)  2.0 billion people 
C)  9.0 billion people 
D)  8.0 million people 
E)  7.0 billion people

Question 7

Recycling nonrenewable metallic resources takes much less energy, water, and other resources and produces less pollution and environmental degradation than exploiting virgin metallic resources.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The tragedy of the commons refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  overuse of privately held resources 
B)  overuse of shared common resources 
C)  human deaths from polluted shared resources such as air or water 
D)  government over-regulation of fresh water use 
E)  a Shakespeare play

Question 9

A worldview that holds that we can and should manage the Earth for our own benefit but that we also have an ethical responsibility to be caring stewards is called the

Accepted Answer

A)  planetary management worldview 
B)  stewardship worldview 
C)  environmental wisdom worldview 
D)  socialist worldview 
E)  monarchy worldview

Question 10

The three principles of sustainability are chemical cycling, reliance on solar energy, and ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The three principles of sustainability are chemical...

Question 11

-If poverty stricken people in developing countries engage in activities that degrade valuable natural resources, which two statistics do you think are driving those actions?

Accepted Answer

The answer of 
-If poverty stricken people in developing countries...

Question 12

The resource consumption of the average person in the United States is about _____ times that of the average citizen of India, and about _____ times that of the average person in the world's poorest countries.

Accepted Answer

A)  2, 10 
B)  5, 10 
C)  8.6, 15 
D)  25, 50 
E)  30, 100

Question 13

Which of the following is a goal of environmental science?

Accepted Answer

A)  Learn how life on earth has thrived and survived.. 
B)  Understand how we interact with the environment. 
C)  Live more sustainably and find ways to deal with environmental problems. 
D)  Learn how life on earth has thrived and survived and understand how we interact with the environment. 
E)  Learn how life on earth has thrived and survived, understand how we interact with the environment, and live more sustainably and find ways to deal with environmental problems.

Question 14

Which of the following terms encompasses all of the others?

Accepted Answer

A)  natural capital 
B)  natural resources 
C)  natural services 
D)  renewable resources 
E)  nonrenewable resources

Question 15

Which of the following best describes the concept of environmental degradation?

Accepted Answer

A)  using solar power at a rapid rate 
B)  growing crops for food 
C)  cutting trees for wood products faster than the trees can regrow to maturity 
D)  letting agricultural runoff cause oxygen depletion and fish kills downstream 
E)  two of these answers

Question 16

Pollution cleanup is considered a short-term solution if population and consumption levels grow without corresponding improvement in pollution control technology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Which of the following is an environmental benefit of affluence and wealth?

Accepted Answer

A)  Increasing wealth allows for an increased capacity for resource consumption. 
B)  Increased wealth provides resources to apply toward the creation of environmentally beneficial technologies. 
C)  Increasing affluence often leads to a desire to travel widely and frequently in order to see the world. 
D)  The affluence of developed nations is highly desirable and sought after by citizens of developing nations. 
E)  The typical consumption patterns of affluent nations leads to beneficial environmental conservation practices.

Question 18

A fictional vision of a more environmentally healthy planet in the future uses which of the following fuels and renewable energy resources?

Accepted Answer

A)  underground heat only 
B)  algae only 
C)  sun and wind only 
D)  flowing water only 
E)  underground heat, algae, sun and wind and flowing water

Question 19

Evidence that we are living unsustainably includes which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Renewable forests are shrinking. 
B)  Topsoil is eroding, and the lower atmosphere is warming. 
C)  Deserts are expanding. 
D)  Deserts are shrinking. 
E)  Deserts are expanding, renewable forests are shrinking, topsoil is eroding and the lower atmosphere is warming.

Question 20

It has been estimated that humanity's global ecological footprint exceeds the Earth's biological capacity by about ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of It has been estimated that humanity's global...

Exam 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

Which of the following is a form of natural capital gained directly or indirectly as a result of solar energy?

Which of the following is an example of recycling?

Perpetual resources exist in a fixed quantity or stock in the Earth's crust.

Developed countries

Nonpoint sources of pollution

In 2009, the world population is about

Recycling nonrenewable metallic resources takes much less energy, water, and other resources and produces less pollution and environmental degradation than exploiting virgin metallic resources.

The tragedy of the commons refers to

A worldview that holds that we can and should manage the Earth for our own benefit but that we also have an ethical responsibility to be caring stewards is called the

The three principles of sustainability are chemical cycling, reliance on solar energy, and ____________________.

-If poverty stricken people in developing countries engage in activities that degrade valuable natural resources, which two statistics do you think are driving those actions?

The resource consumption of the average person in the United States is about _ times that of the average citizen of India, and about _ times that of the average person in the world's poorest countries.

Which of the following is a goal of environmental science?

Which of the following terms encompasses all of the others?

Which of the following best describes the concept of environmental degradation?

Pollution cleanup is considered a short-term solution if population and consumption levels grow without corresponding improvement in pollution control technology.

Which of the following is an environmental benefit of affluence and wealth?

A fictional vision of a more environmentally healthy planet in the future uses which of the following fuels and renewable energy resources?

Evidence that we are living unsustainably includes which of the following?

It has been estimated that humanity's global ecological footprint exceeds the Earth's biological capacity by about ____________________.