Chapter 1 review Environmental Science

Which of the following is NOT an example of natural capital degradation?

• soil erosion

• water pollution

• exponential population growth

• deforestation

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Including the harmful environmental and health cost for goods and services is called

• ecological deficit

• full-cost price

• subsidy

• natural income

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Oil is a(n)

• inexhaustible resource because it is a form of stored solar energy

• nonrenewable resource because it cannot be formed on human time scales

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  renewable resource because it can be used to make fertilizers that restore soil fertility

• renewable resource because it can be renewed through geologic processes

Middle-income countries such as India and China may have low ____, but they have a high ____.

• population size; population growth rate

• resource use per person; overall environmental impact

• overall environmental impact; resource use per person

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Point sources of pollution

• enter ecosystems from dispersed and often hard-to-identify sources

• include runoff of fertilizers and pesticides from farmlands and suburban lawns

• are more difficult to control than nonpoint sources of pollution

• are easier to identify than nonpoint sources of pollution

About 80% of the world’s human population live in

• nations with high average income per person

• less-developed countries

• more-developed countries

• environmentally sustainable societies

According to the ____, all species have value as participating members of the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to humans.

• human-centered environmental worldview

• Earth-centered environmental worldview

• life-centered environmental worldview

• planetary management environmental worldview

Which process best illustrates an ecosystem service?

• natural gas fracking

• pollution cleanup

• water purification

• oil mining

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Which statement about environmentalism is correct?

• Environmentalism focuses on interactions between living and nonliving things.

• Environmentalism does not rely on findings of environmental scientists

• Environmentalism is a social movement not a scientific field of study

• Environmentalism is the study of moral judgments that influence human behavior.

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Which factor is a major contributor to the degradation of natural capital associated with the pricing of consumable goods?

• Consumable goods are priced in such a way that they do not reflect the environmental damage caused by their production.

• Consumable goods are priced in such a way as to allow even poor people in less-developed nations to acquire them.

• Consumers in some local cultures purchase items that are expensive because of the social status it brings.

• Consumable goods are priced in such a way as to offset harmful environmental and health costs.

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