Environmental Problems, their causes, and sustainability

The study of relationships between living organisms and the environment is known as

• Environmental Science

• Ecology

• Natural Capital

• Ecosystem

• Environmentalism

All of the following are examples of sustainability EXCEPT

• Renewable Energy

• Green design_.

• Water Conservation

• Climate Control

• Exponential growth

The population of the world has been increasing ...

• At a constant rate

• Equally among the countries of the world

• Exponentially

• Slowly since 1963

• Until 2000, when it began to stabilize

Which of the following factors is used

by the United Nations to classify a

nation as developed or developing?

• Gain in population

• Resource use

• Distribution of wealth in the population

• Degree of industrialization

• Annual birth rate

A resource that can be replaced in a human lifetime is known as a

• Conservative resource

• Nonrenewable resource

• Important resource

• Renewable resource

• Sustainable resource

ALL of the following are true of

nonrenewable resources EXCEPT

• Exist in a fixed quantity

• Can replenish over a short period of time due to geological processes

• Are depleted faster than they are replenished

• Include metallic minerals which can be recycled or reused

• Include energy resources such as coal which can be harvested with a sustainable yield

Plants and trees can be cut down and replanted. These resources are therefore considered to be

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• Perpetual

• Exhaustible resources

• Sustainable

A measure of a nation's economic development based on a measure of per capita GDP (income of country) PPP (purchasing power parity) which includes all of the following EXCEPT

• Annual market value of all goods produced within the country

• Annual market value of services operating within the country

• Disparity of wealth between individuals within the country

• The total population at midyear

• Comparison of individual purchasing power based on currency rates

The "Tragedy of the Commons" refers to the overuse of

• Free-access resources

• Government subsidies

• Privately owned resources

• Venture capital

• Corporate revenue 13A.

All of the following are true with respect to pollutants EXCEPT

• They disrupt life-support systems for living organisms

• They can damage property

• They create nuisances within an environment

• They contribute to the balance within an ecosystem

• They can be a hazard to human health