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Sustainability

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name

Class

Date

Sustainability is making sure that the planet and its resources can continue to provide life.

True

False

Which of these problems could happen if we don't look after the resources we have?

Loss of animal homes

Climate change

Increase in pollution

All of the above

Your Ecological or Carbon Footprint is the ratio of

the amount of resources you use to the amount of resources available

how many people there are on earth to how much space we have on earth

people to cars

robots available to robots needed

Which of these things are you most likely to NOT find in a sustainable home?

LED Lightbulbs

Low-Flow Toilets & Showers

A wood burning stove

A Hummer (SUV) in the garage

Which is NOT a way to decrease your ecological footprint?

Eating less meat and processed foods

Walking or biking to school

Turning off electricity and water when you're not using it.

Driving a large car around for fun.

What are our basic needs?

clothing, water, air

food, air, clothing

food, water, shelter

Music, money, interpetative dance

What is NOT a sustainable practice?

recycling

reducing

reusing

buying

What has happened to resource consumption in the last several hundred years?

it has remained at the same level

it has decreased dramatically

it has decreased only slightly

it has increased dramatically

A set of moral principles or values held by a person or a society is called

ethics

culture

justice

biocentrism

10.

Which of the following gives value to all living things, both human and nonhuman?

biocentrism

environmentalism

anthropocentrism

ecocentrism

11.

A human-centered view of our relationship with the environment is known as

biocentrism

environmentalism

anthropocentrism

ecocentrism

12.

The “Three Rs” are “Reduce, Reuse, Renewables”

True

False

13.

The variety of life in the world, a habitat, or an ecosystem

biodiversity

ecosystem

mutations

diversity

14.

Which has the least negative impact on wildlife habitat?

agriculture

development

deforestation

recreation

15.

An accurate definition of Sustainability is

meeting population needs

meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to survive

meeting the needs of the future without worrying about todays

meeting the food needs of animals

16.

The three areas of sustainability are

Physical, Economical, Political

Environmental, Social, Physical

Economical, Environmental, Social

Physical, Political, Social

17.

Gas, oil and diesel are all examples of...

Renewable resources

Non-renewable resources

18.

Which of the following is a fossil fuel?

Wind

Coal

Solar

Biomass

19.

Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......

require expensive equipment

take millions of years to replace

can be found all over

provide all the energy we use

20.

The term 'carrying capacity' is best defined as ...

How much pressure people put on the Earth

The number of people Earth can support at current rates of consumption

solving environmental problems through science and technology

solving environmental problems by changing the way we live

100 %

Sustainability

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

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