Resource & Energy Management

What does conservation mean for resource management?

• Using resources as quickly as possible

• The act of preserving, protecting, or restoring the natural environment and its resources

• Increasing the consumption of natural resources to boost the economy

• Ignoring the depletion of natural resources

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Which of the following practices is NOT a method of conservation?

• Recycling materials

• Using more plastic to save other resources

• Planting trees

• Reducing water usage

What is resource management?

• finding the most effective means of avoiding damage to environmental assets and extracting beneficial uses of environmental resources

• ability to endure changes in an ecosystem

• change occurring in only a few months or years.

• change occurring over hundreds, thousands or even millions of years.

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What is renewable resource?

• a natural resource that is able to get replenished in a short period of time (within our lifetime)

• the state of being extremely poor.

• change occurring over hundreds, thousands or even millions of years.

• a natural resource that has a fixed amount and is not replenished within our lifetime (takes millions of years; fossil fuels)

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

• Coal

• Oil

• Wind

• Natural gas

What is non-renewable resource?

• a natural resource that is able to get replenished in a short period of time (within our lifetime)

• the state of being extremely poor.

• change occurring over hundreds, thousands or even millions of years.

• a natural resource that has a fixed amount and is not replenished within our lifetime (takes millions of years; fossil fuels)

Which of the following is an example of a non-renewable resource?

• Solar energy

• Water

• Petroleum

• Trees

How can renewable resources become depleted?

• By using them at a rate that is slower than their natural replenishment rate

• By using them at a rate that exceeds their natural replenishment rate

• By not using them at all, leading to overaccumulation

• Renewable resources cannot become depleted

What role do humans play in the conservation of natural resources?

• Humans have no impact on the conservation of natural resources

• Humans can only deplete natural resources and cannot contribute to their conservation

• Humans can implement practices and technologies that reduce resource depletion and promote sustainability

• Humans are solely responsible for the natural replenishment of resources

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What is malnutrition?

• ability to endure changes in an ecosystem

• the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

• change occurring over hundreds, thousands or even millions of years.

• lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat.

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