Sustainability Quiz

Which of the following is the best definition for sustainability?

• The ability to sustain and maintain resources

• To maintain resources needed for today by replanting

• The ability to maintain a certain level.

• The ability to use and maintain resources in a way that ensures they are available for future generations.

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Which of the following sources of energy is non-renewable?

• sun

• water

• wind

• fuel

Oil, natural gas, and coal are called ________resources because they are not easy to replace.

• renewable

• natural resources

• conservation

• non-renewable

What is one reason the demand for resources continues to increase each year?

• use of fossil fuels

• population growth

• pollution

• technology

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What has happened to the amount of energy used around the world since 1820?

• it has gone up

• it has gone down

• it has stayed the same.

What has happened to the amount of calories (food) since 1961?

• It has increased

• It has decreased

• It has stayed the same.

What has happened the amount of water consumed since 1900?

• It has increased

• It has decreased

• It has stayed the same

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Explain why the water, food and energy consumption has changed in the last 50 years.

• There has been an increase in human population, increasing consumption

• some countries economies are developing, leading to an increase in consumption with more wealth

• We have become a more throw away society instead of fixing them or building products that last.

• all of the above are reasons consumption has changed in the last 50 years

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What does an ecological footprint measure?

• the ability ecosystems can provide natural resources and absorb the Waste produced by humans

• when a population's demand on an ecosystem exceeds the capacity of that ecosystem to regenerate the resources it consumes and absorb its wastes.

• the rate humans consume resources and generate waste compared to how fast nature can absorb our waste and generate resources.

Which of the following best defines biocapacity?

• is defined as the area of land (and water) required by a population, given prevailing technology, to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb any wastes created.

• measures how fast we consume resources and generate waste compared to how fast nature can absorb our waste and generate

• the ability of a given biologically productive area to produce materials such as natural resources as well as absorb the waste generated.

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