Sustainability Lesson

What type of view is suggested for environmental issues?

• Narrow view

• Holistic view

• Economic view

• Technological view

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What is the document's perspective on food waste?

• Increase food waste

• Reduce food waste

• Ignore food waste

• Focus on packaging waste

________ is the development that meets human need without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

• sustainability

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable

• carrying capacity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The ability to meet the current demands for a resource without depleting the future supply is called _______________.

• Global warning

• Sustainability

• Environmental ethics

• Biodiversity

When people are able to use a resource in a way that keeps it available for future generations to use the same way, they are practicing:

• Environmental Science

• Ecology

• Sustainability

• Ecological precautions

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_________________________is when human needs are met so that the population can survive indefinitely.

• conservation

• recycling

• sustainability

• Ecological footprint

_________ science is the interdisciplinary field that includes both scientific and social aspects of human impact on the world 

• Earth

• Environmental

• Biological

• Physical

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

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A material or energy that is replenished (returns) in a short period of time. Example: water, solar, wind

• Greenhouse effect

• Natural resource

• Renewable resource

• Non-renewable resource

Which choice best describes a country's ecological footprint?

• it's the footprint(s) of the scientist(s) who have studied the country's environment

• it's a way to measure the effect natural processes affect the environment

• it's a way to measure how many kinds of plants and animals live in a particular country

• it's a measure of the impact human lifestyles have on their natural environment

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Why are fossil fuels considered nonrenewable resources if they are still forming beneath the surface today?

• They are being formed as a type of methane which we cannot use.

• They are being formed too far beneath the surface.

• The fossil fuels are being broken down by a natural process.

• We are using the fossil fuels much faster than they can form.

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