Human impacts, solutions, and sustainability

Which of these is a reason for humans creating negative environmental impacts

• Apathy

• Ignorance

• Lack of Resouces

• All of these

Which of these would not be affected as the human population grows

• We will lose biodiversity

• less animals will become extinct

• We will run out of natural resources

• Fossil fuels will continue to be consumed at an exponential rate

Which of these is NOT how do humans try to ease global warming effects?

• Control carbon emissions via carbon scrubbers

• Straight piping with no catalytic converter

• Legislation

• conserving carbon sinks

Which of the following is NOT a reason humans are currently unsustainable

• We are turning renewable resources into nonrenewable ones

• We don't recycle enough

• We are the cause of the 6th mass extinction

• We currently produce too little CO₂

Which of these local human caused impacts affects the global level the LEAST

• Water pollution

• Land pollution

• Air Pollution

• They all affect the global level in equal amounts

What is biodiversity?

• The range of living things in an area

• The number of types of people living in an area

• It is not important for ecosystem sustainability

• Something that is causing the 6th Mass extinction

What is NOT true about the 6th Mass extinction?

• It is thought to be caused by humans

• It is directly related to the rate of human population growth

• It mostly effects organism in the Midwest

• It is expected to continually get worse

Which of these is sustainable?

• Earth's atmospheric carbon

• Earth's fossil fuel use

• Earth's biodiversity

• None of these

Which of these is a local based impact?

• Climate change

• Ocean pollution

• Acid rain

• Land pollution

What is sustainability?

• With current conditions living with the same results

• With future conditions losing resources

• Conserving all materials

• Recycling all appropriate materials