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Global Perspectives Sustainability / Poverty

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

The following is the best definition of poverty:

a)

It is a state or condition when a person or community have high standards of living.

b)

It is a state or condition when a person or community lacks financial resources and minimum standard of living.

c)

It is simply suffering.

d)

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.

2.

The three pillars of sustainability are:

a)

Economy, Society and Global health

b)

Economic, Environmental and Social

c)

Business, Forest and Recreation

d)

All of the above

3.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

One of these is not an inequality.

a)

Social inequality

b)

Income inequality

c)

Case Inequality

d)

Wealth inequality

5.

How do you think you can achieve a balance between economic and environmental pillar?

a)

By growing in nature and investing in resources.

b)

Making campaigns and not destroy the nature.

c)

Making good factories that investigates in the environment.

d)

Whit money and work.

6.

Sustainability has to do with these three except :

a)

Preserving and maintaining resources.

b)

The capacity to endure and continue.

c)

The ability of something to maintain itself in a long term.

d)

It has nothing to do with the need to preserve forest or practicing mixed cropping.

7.

Poverty caused by a natural phenomenon is cyclical poverty.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Which of the following is an application of environmental sustainability.

a)

sustainable oil

b)

sustainable forestry

c)

sustainable monocrops

9.

Sustainable agriculture, farmers often grow one crop (monocrop) which means they MUST grow a single crop year after year.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Tick all the things that we do which affect the state of the earth.

a)

Using fossil fuels

b)

Littering and coastal dune erosion

c)

Major air, water and land contamination

d)

commercial ocean use like over-fishing and by-catch which is destroying the ecosystem.