Sustainability Quiz

The formula used to determine the time it takes for a population to double is the...

• Rule of 60

• Rule of 70

• Rule of 80

• Rule of 90

Point source pollution is where...

• There is a single source of pollution found in one location.

• There are multiple sources of pollution in one location.

• There are multiple sources converging in a single location

• There are subterranean pollution sources converging into a single area.

Having enough managed resources to meet the needs of future generations is a good definition of

• Renewable resource

• Natural capital

• Pollution

• Sustainability

A perpetual resource is one that is

• replenished rapidly in the short term.

• continuous on the human time scale.

• in fixed supply and is not renewed.

• adaptable depending on the organism it serves.

Resources that are NOT used to their potential would be ____________________ in a local environment.

• overconsumed

• properly consumed

• Underconsumed

• sold

Environmentalists have a tendency to have a _______________ view about the Earth's fate.

• Pessimistic

• Optimistic

• very angry

• Unemotional

The impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources is called their ___________________________.

• Carbon dating

• Land Use

• Ecological management

• Ecological footprint

The term "affluenza" is used to describe a situation where

• flu viruses over-consume available food resources in their ecosystem.

• Resources are under-consumed or used unsustainably.

• Resources are over-consumed but are still sustainable within the ecosystem.

• Resources are over-consumed or consumed in an unsustainable manner.

This event in human history represented the first time that humans grouped together and worked resources to sustain a community group.

• Global information revolution

• Agricultural revolution

• Industrial revolution

• The Renaissance

Five lakes release a nutrient load into their respective rivers. These rivers are designed to handle the load. The rivers converge into a central reservoir which cannot handle the entire load. This is an example of

• Non-renewable resource

• Point-source pollution

• Non-point source pollution

• Resource under-consumption