Sustainability Foundations

With the rapidly growing human population and constant new pressures on the environment it gradually becomes more difficult to maintain sustainability. Choose the sentence which best explains what sustainability is.

• The exploitation of resources at such rate which allows for their natural replenishment and the recovery of the ecosystem affected by their use.

• The maximum population size that an area can support without detrimental effects.

• Engaging in the prevention of negative effects of human activities on the Earth’s resources through localised actions (recycling of waste, reduction in electricity consumption etc.).

• The area of land needed to provide all of the resources for a person’s lifestyle and to dispose of all their wastes.

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What is natural capital?

• A store of natural resources that can produce a sustainable source of goods and services.

• Goods or services obtained by proper management of the Earth’s natural resources.

• Total area of land required to maintain food production for the growing human population.

• Total area of land required to assimilate waste produced by the growing human population.

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What is the Ecological footprint?

• Hypothetical area of land that a human uses every day

• Hypothetical area of land to support waste assimilation and food production

• The hypothetical area of land required to support each person's resource needs

• The hypothetical area of land to support their resource needs and assimilate all waste

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Which tool could be used to assess sustainability?

• Quadrats

• Ecological Footprint Calculation

• Simpson's Index

• Dissolved oxygen probes

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The goal of using resources to meet the needs of both current and future generations is referred

to as

• sustainability

• NAFTA

• environmental science

• preservation

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a world in which human populations can continue to exist indefinitely with a high standard of living and health

• population crisis

• consuption

• sustainable

• environment

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Polar Ice Caps are melting due to an increase in Earth's temperature. This lowers the albedo of Earth, which in turn increases Earth's temperature. This is an example of what type of feedback?

• negative

• positive

• neutral

• circular

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Which is NOT a way to decrease your ecological footprint?

• Eating less meat and processed foods

• Walking or biking to school

• Turning off electricity and water when you're not using it. 

• Driving a large car around for fun.

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Sustainability is making sure that the planet and its resources can continue to provide life.

• True

• False

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Which of these problems could happen if we don't look after the resources we have?

• Loss of animal homes

• Climate change

• Increase in pollution

• All of the above

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