North Star Geography 11.1 Environmental Stewardship

Which US president was known as the conservationist president because he established the national parks and preservation of national monuments by setting aside 230 million acres of land for Americans to enjoy?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Warren G. Harding

________ was the Founder of the Sierra Club who concerned themselves with preserving wilderness areas, protecting wild animals.

• Gregor Mendel

• Henry David Thoreau

• Henry Hudson

• John Muir

Which Revolution caused the US to not value environmental issues as much and brought bad smells to the air or rendered rivers unusable.

• French Revolution

• Industrial revolution

• The Cedar Revolution

• The Tulip Revolution

In October 1948, Donora, Pennsylvania citizens suffered with ________, a combination of smoke and fog because they lived in the bottom of a river valley among several industrial plants which caused breathing issues.

• Fire

• Wind damage

• smog

• Cloud seeding

The environmental protection agency created the ______________ because people demanded a change in how pollution was handled in communities across the US.

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Clean Air Act

• Endangered Species Act

Instilling acts by the government with environmental policies can also hurt populations of people. (Select all examples that apply)

• Implementing bans too early with no replacement available Ex: Banning DDT although environmentally unfriendly, is a chemical which helped reducing malaria cases caused by mosquitos, and left people without a mass produced effective

  prevention at the time.

• Banning factories from being run, causes job loss and people to move.

• Banning industries kills people.

Ecoterrorism is

• Terrorism on the economy

• Terrorism on Ecology

• Terrorism on businesses or industries whose methods extreme environmentalists find unacceptable.

• Terrorism on cars, namely those that are use electricity instead of gas.

Environmental thinking positives are: (select all that apply)

• Removal of harmful agricultural or household products benefits’ s everyone’s health.

• Industries are making changes to improve air quality.

• Independent researchers are continuing to test products and publishes findings on questionable products.

• Consumers are making more informed choices according to their convictions.

• We have greenwashing of products (companies are using ambiguous, unregulated terms like natural, eco-friendly, or green on products.)

The sustainability movement is can be described as (select all that apply)

• A method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged

• Finding ways to live so our children, grandchildren, and so on can continue to live in a world without a critical lack of resources due to our extravagant use of them.

• Playing the guitar with the sustain pedal and dancing at the same time.

• Cautiously moving through a dark room holding 5 flashlights.

The word “green” means (select all that apply)

• A color

• A catch - all phrase for anything considered eco- friendly

• In general, things that are not environmentally harmful.

• When you are mad