Sustainability and Land Use Review

What does sustainability mean?

• Making sure the planet and its resources can continue to provide life

• using only fossil fuels

• using only non-renewable resources

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What is NOT a sustainable practice?

• recycling

• reusing

• reducing

• buying

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Oil imports and exports numbers fall into the __________ category.

• Social sustainability

• Economic sustainability

• Environmental sustainability

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Which of the following is not one of the categories of sustainability?

• Environmental

• Community

• Social

• Economic

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What long-term impact could the destruction of large areas of forests have on Earth?

• decreased rates of erosion
• increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
• decreased amounts of acid rain
• increased atmospheric oxygen levels

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What is the main goal of

sustainability?

• Use resources faster than they are created

• Conserve resources in a way that human populations can survive indefinitely

• Prevent humans from using resources

• Share common places

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When people use a shared resource and

cause the resource to be depleted or

damaged is called:

• Sustainability

• Environmental Science

• Developed Country

• Tragedy of the Commons

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A certain area of the Indian ocean is expected to dry up and become a desert over thousands of years. What will happen to the sustainability of this ocean?

• Sustainability would increase because the number of species would increase

• Sustainability would remain the same

• Sustainability would decrease because the number of species would decrease

• Not enough information is given

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Which describes the situation that any resource open to everyone will eventually be overused and depleted because everyone can use the resource but no one is responsible for it?

• “Tragedy of the Commons”
• Sustainability
• Industrial Revolution
• Agricultural Revolution

People moving from the rural areas to cities is called...

• Ruralization
• Urbanization
• Colonization
• None of these