Chapter 1 Assessment Review

Which of the following is NOT a factor of sustainability?

• biodiversity

• economics

• natural capital

• solar energy

• ethics

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-ESS3-3

A life-centered worldview is particularly concerned with which of the following?

• avoiding human activities that may hasten the extinction of other species

• finding more effective ways to manage Earth as a support system for human life

• learning how life on Earth has sustained itself for billions of years

• understanding how people are part of, and dependent on, nature

• identifying and protecting species that can contribute to humans' survival

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

How does full-cost pricing help create economic sustainability?

• Full-cost pricing is an effective way to prevent unbalanced affluence.

• Full-cost pricing reduces ecological footprints to create an ecological deficit.

• Full-cost pricing provides subsidies to help companies be environmentally friendly.

• Full-cost pricing reflects the true environmental cost of goods and services.

• Full-cost pricing allows people to find sustainable, low-cost products.

Which resource does NOT need to be cycled by ecosystems because a continuous, unlimited supply is available?

• pollinators

• solar energy

• natural gas

• carbon

• water

Suppose you are part of a community with a sustainable yield of fish. Which of the following would be true?

• The rate of harvest does not exceed the fish population's rate of recovery.

• The fish are being harvested using humane methods.

• The yield of fish is increasing each year.

• No other species of fish have been inadvertently caught.

• The community has harvested enough fish to meet its nutritional requirements.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

Together, natural resources and ecosystem services are referred to as _____.

• inexhaustible resources

• environmental degradation

• natural capital

• biodiversity

• ecological footprints

Which of the following qualifies as point-source pollution?

• a sewer pipe dumping raw sewage into a stream

• pollutants emitted by power plants in a region

• fertilizer runoff from agricultural fields

• exhaust from vehicles in a county

• solid waste from consumers in a city

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

The main focus of conservation is to _____.

• set aside land and protect it from human activities

• demand government action to pass environmental laws

• prevent wild species from becoming endangered

• limit society's demand for natural resources

• wisely manage natural resources for people's use

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

The idea that people are part of, and dependent on, nature represents a(n) _____.

• stewardship environmental worldview

• planetary management environmental worldview

• human-centered environmental worldview

• Earth-centered environmental worldview

• life-centered environmental worldview

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

John Muir, a preservationist, wanted wilderness areas on some public lands to be _____.

• left untouched and protected indefinitely

• managed primarily for timber production

• sold to private landowners who would protect them

• set aside for scientific experiments

• allocated specifically to people with limited resources