Ecological Footprint

To reduce your carbon footprint, you should eat food that is....

• grown in other countries

• yummy

• grown locally

Everyone has a carbon footprint.

• true 

• false

What  focuses on a given population and its current rate of resource consumption, and estimates the area of environment necessary to sustainably support that particular population.

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As a model, ecological footprints are able to provide a quantitative estimate of human ecological footprints also. True or false.

• True

• False

What is an ecological foot print?

• The foot print left by an animal in the past

• A measurement of how much land humans use

• How many resources are produced by the planet every day

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What does the ecological footprint measure?

• The amount of carbon dioxide emissions per person

• The number of species in an ecosystem

• The amount of land and water area a human population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes

• The biodiversity of a given area

Which of the following is a component of calculating the ecological footprint?

• Water usage

• Food consumption

• Energy consumption

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

True or False: The ecological footprint can be used to assess the sustainability of individual lifestyles.

• True

• False

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What is the primary goal of reducing an ecological footprint?

• To increase biodiversity

• To decrease the amount of waste produced

• To ensure that human demand on nature is within the planet's ecological capacity to regenerate

• To reduce the number of endangered species

Which of the following activities would most likely increase an individual's ecological footprint?

• Using public transportation

• Recycling waste

• Eating a plant-based diet

• Flying frequently for vacations

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