Earth & Environmental Science

Sustainability is defined as…

• 1) Consuming at a rate to satisfy the current generation.

• 2) Rapidly increasing resource consumption over time.

• 3) Maintaining a rate of resource consumption that will allow the population to survive indefinitely.

• 4) Not consuming any resources at all.

A natural resource that is naturally formed much more slowly than we use it is called

• 1) renewable

• 2) ecological

• 3) non-renewable

• 4) sustainable

Which of the following is a nonrenewable resource?

• 1) Wind

• 2) Sunlight

• 3) Water

• 4) Coal

As the human population grows, resources

• 1) decrease

• 2) increase

• 3) stay the same

• 4) increase, then decrease

Which one is a completely renewable resource?

• 1) Oil

• 2) Sunlight

• 3) Coal

• 4) Fresh water

Any materials or energy from nature that humans need to survive.

• natural resource

• environment

• nonrenewable resource

• inference

Which of the following resources are considered renewable natural resources?

• • Sunlight • Wind energy • Wave energy • Geothermal energy

• Sunlight only

• Petroleum Oil, sunlight, geothermal energy

• none of the above

Which of the following are examples of nonrenewable natural resources ?

• 1) • Sunlight • Wind energy • Wave energy • Geothermal energy

• 2) • Crude oil • Natural gas • Coal • Copper, aluminum, and other metals

• 3) Wind Energy only

• 4) None of the above

What's the difference between renewable and nonrenewable natural resources?

• 1) Non-renewable natural resources are naturally formed much more slowly and once they are used up--, they are gone forever!

• 2) options 1 and 4 of the answer choices

• 3) Non-renewable natural resources are naturally formed much more slowly and once they are used up--, they are gone forever!

• 4) Renewable natural resources are naturally replenished, or renewed, over short periods.

Subsurface ocean currents continually circulate from the warm waters near the equator to the colder waters in other parts of the world. What is the main cause of these currents? 

• differences in the topography along the ocean floor 
• differences in density of ocean water 
• the rotation of Earth on its axis 
• movement of the jet stream