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WorksheetsGlobal Perspectives Sustainability / Poverty
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The following is the best definition of poverty:
It is a state or condition when a person or community have high standards of living.
It is a state or condition when a person or community lacks financial resources and minimum standard of living.
It is simply suffering.
It is a state or condition when a person or community have no job even though they are able to provide themselves and their families.
The three pillars of sustainability are:
Economy, Society and Global health
Economic, Environmental and Social
Business, Forest and Recreation
All of the above
Social sustainability is the ability of a community to develop processes and structures which not only meet the needs of its current members but also the ability of future generations to maintain a healthy community.
True
False
One of these is not an inequality.
Social inequality
Income inequality
Case Inequality
Wealth inequality
How do you think you can achieve a balance between economic and environmental pillar?
By growing in nature and investing in resources.
Making campaigns and not destroy the nature.
Making good factories that investigates in the environment.
Whit money and work.
Sustainability has to do with these three except :
Preserving and maintaining resources.
The capacity to endure and continue.
The ability of something to maintain itself in a long term.
It has nothing to do with the need to preserve forest or practicing mixed cropping.
Poverty caused by a natural phenomenon is cyclical poverty.
True
False
Which of the following is an application of environmental sustainability.
sustainable oil
sustainable forestry
sustainable monocrops
Sustainable agriculture, farmers often grow one crop (monocrop) which means they MUST grow a single crop year after year.
True
False
Tick all the things that we do which affect the state of the earth.
Using fossil fuels
Littering and coastal dune erosion
Major air, water and land contamination
commercial ocean use like over-fishing and by-catch which is destroying the ecosystem.
