Chapter 1: Environment & Sustainability

All of the following are important ethical questions about the environment, Except:

• Do people have an obligation to make sure that their activities do not cause the extinction of other species?

• Should eating fast food be considered morally wrong?

• Should society seek to live more sustainably?

• Why should people care about the environment?

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A life-centered worldview is particularly concerned with which of the following?

• identifying and protecting species that can contribute to humans’ survival

• avoiding human activities that may speed up the extinction of other species

• finding more effective ways to manage Earth as a support system for human life

• learning how life on Earth has sustained itself for billions of years

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Which resource does NOT need to be cycled by ecosystems because a continuous, unlimited supply is available?

• carbon

• water

• pollinators

• solar energy

An ecological footprint is defined as:

• Land and water needed to produce the natural resources consumed by a person or population and to absorb their wastes.

• The amount of electricity a person uses per month

• The impact a person or population has on the oil industry.

• The footprint left by an animal in the wild.

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Which of the following qualifies as point-source pollution?

• Runoff of water pollutants from a construction site.

• water pollutants runoff from a clear-cut forest.

• a sewer pipe dumping raw sewage directly into a stream

• fertilizer runoff from agricultural fields and croplands

The author of A Sand County Almanac, this conservationist argued that the role of the human species should be to protect nature, not conquer it:

• Dennis Dimick

• Aldo Leopold

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Dr. James Harding

This pesticide caused very harmful effects to the environment during the mid 20th century, and was pointed out in Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.

• ACDC

• DDT

• OFF

• AED

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Which of these two important conservation events happened in 1970?

• The Atlantic Ocean Clean-up and the formation of the Global Conservation Club

• The Pacific Ocean Clean-up and the formation of the USA Conservation Society

• The first Global Conservation Month and the formation of the World Council of Conservation

• The first Earth Day and formation of the Environmental Protection Agency

Which of the following is NOT a factor of sustainability?

• Gulf of Mexico

• biodiversity

• economics

• ethics

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This president established more than 50 national wildlife reserves and tripled the size of the national forest reserves:

• Woodrow Wilson

• George Washington

• Harry Truman

• Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt