AICE Environmental Management Exam 1 Dr. DePeña

Identify the key phrase best associated with sustainability from the following list.

• Maximize natural resource consumption

• Short-term financial goals supersede long-term environmental quality

• Seek to promote environmental depletion

• Responsible environmental interaction

• Minimize destruction of fossil fuels

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Which of the following is an example of environmentally sustainable consumption?

• Clearing a large area of forest for firewood, and not replanting the cleared area

• Relying on traditional fossil fuels for energy consumption

• Deciding to heat the family swimming pool with solar panels versus a traditional heater run off the grid

• Removing emissions control devices from your vehicle

• Adding only unleaded gas to your vehicle

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Practices such as selective logging, planting trees to expand forest lands, or creating protected forests are examples of _____.

• sustainable economics

• commonly accepted lumber practices

• sustainable forestry

• crop rotation

• Environment friendly practice of saving money

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What environmental outcome is likely to occur through human actions associated with population growth, resource depletion, and pollution?

• The environment benefits through increased consumption of natural resources

• These actions always suggest an increase in conservation and preservation efforts

• Environmental sustainability is endangered

• No outcome, as the environment is always resilient to human actions

• Some outcome depending on the budget of thee government.

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Public efforts to promote information sharing about local availability of 'green' products and services would likely be beneficial in promoting the practice of _____ simplicity.

• voluntary

• mandatory

• utility

• statutory

• forced

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USE YOUR COMMON SENSE:

What situation is likely to have occurred if a farmer observing crop yield determines that production has been steadily decreasing for five years?

• An environmental limit has been exceeded

• Large retailers are beginning to compete with local farming co-ops

• Crop prices have increased

• Crop prices have decreased

• Crop prices remain the same

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Which of the following descriptions best explains environmental sustainability?

• The term that is used to describe the economic value of the natural environment

• The ability for all individuals regardless of nationality to enjoy the natural resources of the environment

• Responsible interaction with the environment to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources and allow for long-term environmental quality

• The ability of the environment to keep producing minerals and other energy sources

• To keep everyone involved in keeping prices down on all crops

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Total Logging wants to start cutting down trees in a particular area, but they are an environmentally friendly logging company and they want to ultimately preserve the woodland. What can they do to accomplish this?

• There is no way to do logging and preserve the woodland.

• Sustainable logging

• Selective deforesting

• Selective logging

• Selective Sustainability

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Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning sustainable agriculture?

• t grew out of concerns over the industrialization of agriculture.

• With sustainable agriculture, farmers minimize usage of chemical pesticides and fertilizers

• Sustainable agriculture is the use of farming techniques that protect the environment.

• Sustainable agriculture farmers often grow monocrops, which means they grow a single crop year after year.

• Farmers grow mixed crops for sustainability

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Which of the following is an application of environmental sustainability?

• Sustainable oil

• Sustainable forestry

• Sustainable fossil fuels

• Sustainable monocrops

• Sustainable gas

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