Alice Environmental Chapter

Which of the following are considered part of the environment?

• forest

• people

• buildings

• all of these

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Which of the following is an example of a renewable natural resource?

• Copper

• Crude Oil

• Coal

• Wave Energy

Sustainability is defined as…

• Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

• Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

• Maintaining a rate of resource consumption that will allow the population to survive indefinitely.

• Not consuming any resources at all.

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An average person from _______________ would be expected to have a higher ecological footprint than the other two countries.

• Country "A"

• Country "B"

• Country "C"

• None of the above; They would have roughly equal ecological footprints.

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Which example best illustrates the point behind the Tragedy of the Commons essay?

• Various nations overfishing in international waters, leading to a collapse of fish stocks.

• A property owner clear-cutting all of the trees on his land to sell for timber

• A farmer that overplants his fields one year, leading to a poor harvest

• One country declaring war on another

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Environmental science applies to all of the following EXCEPT...

• How the natural world works

• How much greenhouse gas is produced

• How our environment affects us

• How we affect our environment

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What type of investigation does this represent?

• model

• experimentation

• observation

• recording

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The environment contains:

• living things (biotic) only

• Nonliving things (abiotic) only

• Both living and nonliving things

• only artificial things

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Which of the following types of environmental ethics places an emphasis on human interests?

• Anthropocentric

• Ecocentric

• Biocentric

• None of these

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Which act was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient AirQuality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creations of law to protect the environment?

• National Environmental Policy Act

• Clean Air Act

• Energy Independence and Security Act

• Energy Policy Act