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Which approach to resource management aims to harvest resources in ways that minimize impact on the ecosystem and processes that provide the resource?

• maximum sustainable yield
• ecosystem-based management
• adaptive management
• watershed management

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Use less energy and turn off the lights. Reduce, reuse, recycle, or trash?

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Surface Mining and Control Reclamation Act

• mandates that miners give half of what they find to the government

• allows miners to place a stake on public land for $5 per acre

• mandates reclamation

• is meant to bankrupt mining companies

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To improve efficiency in your home

• add insulation or upgrade

• use solar panels for heating

• reduce leakage

• all of the above

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The owner of a coffee shop learns that serving its hot drinks in plastic foam cups has a negative impact on the environment. He is considering several way to limit this negative effect. The following chart shows four of the shop’s ideas.    Which method should the coffee shop use to meet its goal?

• Reusing plastic foam cups, because it is a form of recycling that is good for the environment.
• Offering a discount to people for bringing their own mugs, because it will reward those who reuse.
• Serving coffee in paper cups, because it will cause the least amount of change for the customers.
• Encouraging people to drink coffee in the shop, because it will cut the number of cups thrown away.

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Which would be the best way to reduce the environmental impact of conventional agriculture practices?

• Increase pesticide use

• Decrease crop rotation

• Decrease fertilizer use

• Increase of nonnative species

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Which action would best help to improve air quality?

• increase deforestation efforts

• decrease fossil fuel emissions

• decrease the levels of oxygen in the atmosphere

• increase the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

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A family of five recently replaced its 7-gallon-per-minute showerheads with water-saving 3-gallon-per-minute showerheads. Each member of the family averages 10 minutes in the shower per day. How many fewer gallons of water will the family use each day with the new showerheads?

• 40 gallons per day

• 200 gallons per day

• 1,000 gallons per day

• 2,100 gallons per day

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The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement set up with the goal of 

• reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
• shutting down industrial factories all over the world 
• reducing pollution 
• all of the above 

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A ship carrying gasoline runs into shore and spills large amount of gasoline.

• Point

• Non-Point

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