WG Test: Sustainable Development

For the United States, one benefit of encouraging the development of renewable sources of energy is:

• reduction in the cost of energy

• less reliance on foreign sources of oil

• increasing mining of domestic stores of fossil fuels

• heavy reliance on resources that are replaced by artificial processes

What impact did Kenya's water policies have on its people prior to 2006?

• The government did everything possible to ensure that people had access to clean water

• The government's efforts to clean rivers and lakes discouraged people from seeking clean water

• The government increased funding based on the needs of the people.

• The government's actions limited access to clean water by rural people.

Which best illustrates Sustainable Development?

• Brazil has cut down some of its forests to create more farmland

• Germany requires lumber companies to plant more trees than they cut down

• Saudi Arabia refines its own crude oil so that it does not need to import foreign oil.

• Japan requires all new buildings to be able to withstand earthquakes

Which of the following is non-renewable?

• Fossil fuels

• Air

• Sun

• Rain

How does the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) use AQI data to support the enforcement of the Clean Air Act

• monitoring the production of fuel-efficient cars

• limiting the use of certain chemicals by industrial manufacturers

• reducing the number of permits for new construction projects

• decreasing the use of mass-transportation systems

Based on the map, what's an important natural resource Palestine lost proximity to?

• lost control of its deserts

• lost most of its territory

• lost access to major bodies of water with every year

• did not lose anything

The European Union (EU) was created mainly to:

• build a strong military

• promote economic growth

• prevent religious persecution

• protect environmental interests

What was the main purpose of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?

• provides economic assistance to member countries through loans

• controls the global distribution and price of an energy resource

• offers military support to threatened member countries

• stores reserves of a natural resource

What was one reason for the conflict referred to in this report?

• Different groups had competing claims over land in the region

• The International Criminal Court issued warrants for suspected war criminals living in the region

• Ethnic groups competed for control of the region's natural resources

• The United Nations imposed immigration reforms in some countries in the region.

What physical features cause world political and economic powers to be interested in the Middle East and its conflicts?

• vast reserves of oil and gas resources

• vast reserves of gold

• vast reserves of uranium

• vast availability of arable land