Day #3

Which is true? Choose ALL that apply.

• There is a relationship between how much of a resource is available and how much people want it.

• There are benefits and costs with interacting with the environment.

• There are only benefits with interacting with the environment.

• They are only costs with interacting with the environment.

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What is "environmental ethics"?

• the moral relationship humans have the environment

• human activities always have unplanned affects on the environment

• resources will decreases if there are no laws and regulations

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A government passes a law protecting the habitat of an endangered owl.

This is an example of ___________ environmental ethics.

• ecocentric

• anthropocentric

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Humans cut down a mature forest to build a McDonalds.

This is an example of ____________ environmental ethics.

• ecocentric

• anthropocentric

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What began to raise awareness of environmental issues and problems?

• increased disasters caused by Industrial Revolution

• The atomic bombing of Japan

• The stock market crash of 1929

• the Bubonic plague outbreak in the 14th century.

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A substance that causes cancer.

• carcinogen

• isotope

• proton

• carbon

What led the way for DDT, a pesticide, to be outlawed by the government?

• Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, written in 1962

• the San Francisco earthquake fire in 1906

• The "dust bowl" of the 1930s

• The Cuyahoga River fire in 1969

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The variety of species found in a particular location.

• biodiversity

• population

• overhunting

• habitat loss

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What might cause a species to go extinct? Choose ALL that apply.

• over-hunting

• habitat loss

• pesticides and pollution

• stable environment

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What happened at Love Canal in New York in the 1970s?

• housing had to be abandoned due to a leaking chemical dump

• people had to evacuate their homes due to a nuclear reactor leak

• the river caught fire due to excessive polution

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