Sustainable Development Review

What does the term 'sustainable' mean?

• The implementation of eco-friendly technologies.

• A balance between meeting today's needs with those of the future

• The use of alternative energies

Which of the following is not a sustainable development goal?

• Eliminate racism in all its forms

• Climate action

• Clean water and sanitation

• Good health and well-being

Q.NO. 1 Sustainable Development is that development which satisfies the need of:

• Present generation only
• future generation only
• both (a) & (b)
• none of these

Q.NO.2 Which of the following is a necessary condition for sustainable development?

• Increase in the quality of life
• Reduction in the level of pollution
• conservation of stock of natural capital
• All of these

Q.NO.6 Non -Renewable resources are those resources which:

• are exausted after use
• are not exausted after use
• have unlimited supply
• none of these

Q.NO.14 When the surface soil is washed away through excessive rains and floods, it is called:

• Soil erosion
• Land degradation
• Biodiversity
• Deforestation

If we buy local, instead of to worldwide companies, that is an example of how to HELP sustainable development.

• True

• False

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

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