Topic 8.2 Human Resource Use

Which of the following statement is true:

• Uranium can be considered to be a natural capital that is dynamic because its value can change overtime.

• Uranium can be considered to be a natural capital that is dynamic because it is highly reactive.

• Uranium can be considered to be a natural capital that is dynamic because it has the potential to produce a lot of thermal energy.

• Uranium can be considered to be a natural capital that is dynamic because it has a wide environmental effect.

Oil is a form of economic natural capital. Our ability to exploit is dependent on       ______           advances.

• political
• geological
• biological
• technological

Stratospheric ozone and the hydrological cycle are natural resources, what do they provide us with? 

• services

• goods

• natural capital

• economic capital

If a resource is not valued for money but for its beauty or mere existence, it has an ______ value.

What does the expression ‘tragedy of the commons’ mean?

• Individuals act according to their self-interest and exploit a common resource without considering the effects on the future generations.

• Everyone needs to act in such a way as to ensure their own well-being because none of the Earth’s resources are finite.

• The modern cornucopian society had already exploited the natural capital to such an extent that no measures can restore it.

• The human population growth gradually leads to such pressures on the Earth’s resources that it will soon become impossible to provide for our needs.

A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame.

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resource

• reforestation

• atmosphere

Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals.

• animal relics

• fossil fuels

• reforestation

• fossils

Resources that are obtained from the earth

• global warming

• pollution

• natural resources

• nature's bounty

A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed

• nonrenewable resource

• renewable resources

• fossil fuels

• pollution

What has happened to the size of the human population over time?

• Human population size did not change at all until around the year 1880.

• Human population size has grown slowly since the beginning of the Modern Age.

• The size of the human population began increasing rapidly within the last 200 years.

• The size of the human population has always increased at a steady rate.