Quiz on Natural Resources and Environmental Impact

Indirect forms of solar energy, such as wind and flowing water, provide us with inexhaustible energy sources that we can use to produce electricity.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

The tragedy of the commons is a phenomenon that occurs only when the number of users of a resource is small.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Natural resources are considered natural capital, whereas ecosystem services are not.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The per capita ecological footprint is the total ecological footprint for a given country or area.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which statement about how the IPAT model can be used is correct?

• The goal is to increase the T factor in the IPAT model.

• The IPAT model helps measure a country’s affluence.

• The IPAT model is a type of environmental impact model.

• The IPAT model only considers use of renewable resources.

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

The tragedy of the commons refers to the ____.

• overuse of privately held resources

• degradation of shared common resources

• degradation of natural resources due to affluence

• conservation of natural resources

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Point sources of pollution ____.

• enter ecosystems from dispersed and often hard-to-identify sources

• include runoff of fertilizers and pesticides from farmlands and suburban lawns

• are easier to identify than nonpoint sources of pollution

• are always natural in origin

Which process best illustrates an ecosystem service?

• natural gas fracking

• pollution cleanup

• water purification

• deforestation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Living sustainably means living on ____—the renewable resources such as plants, animals, soil, clean air, and clean water provided by Earth’s natural capital.

• exponential growth

• natural income

• ecosystem services

• biodiversity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

According to the ____, all species have value as participating members of the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to humans.

• human-centered environmental worldview

• Earth-centered environmental worldview

• life-centered environmental worldview

• stewardship environmental worldview