WorksheetsNorth Star Geography 11.1 Environmental Stewardship
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which US president was known as the conservationist president because he established the national parks and preservation of national monuments by setting aside 230 million acres of land for Americans to enjoy?
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
________ was the Founder of the Sierra Club who concerned themselves with preserving wilderness areas, protecting wild animals.
Gregor Mendel
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Hudson
John Muir
Which Revolution caused the US to not value environmental issues as much and brought bad smells to the air or rendered rivers unusable.
French Revolution
Industrial revolution
The Cedar Revolution
The Tulip Revolution
In October 1948, Donora, Pennsylvania citizens suffered with ________, a combination of smoke and fog because they lived in the bottom of a river valley among several industrial plants which caused breathing issues.
Fire
Wind damage
smog
Cloud seeding
The environmental protection agency created the ______________ because people demanded a change in how pollution was handled in communities across the US.
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Clean Air Act
Endangered Species Act
Instilling acts by the government with environmental policies can also hurt populations of people. (Select all examples that apply)
Implementing bans too early with no replacement available Ex: Banning DDT although environmentally unfriendly, is a chemical which helped reducing malaria cases caused by mosquitos, and left people without a mass produced effective
prevention at the time.
Banning factories from being run, causes job loss and people to move.
Banning industries kills people.
Ecoterrorism is
Terrorism on the economy
Terrorism on Ecology
Terrorism on businesses or industries whose methods extreme environmentalists find unacceptable.
Terrorism on cars, namely those that are use electricity instead of gas.
Environmental thinking positives are: (select all that apply)
Removal of harmful agricultural or household products benefits’ s everyone’s health.
Industries are making changes to improve air quality.
Independent researchers are continuing to test products and publishes findings on questionable products.
Consumers are making more informed choices according to their convictions.
We have greenwashing of products (companies are using ambiguous, unregulated terms like natural, eco-friendly, or green on products.)
The sustainability movement is can be described as (select all that apply)
A method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged
Finding ways to live so our children, grandchildren, and so on can continue to live in a world without a critical lack of resources due to our extravagant use of them.
Playing the guitar with the sustain pedal and dancing at the same time.
Cautiously moving through a dark room holding 5 flashlights.
The word “green” means (select all that apply)
A color
A catch - all phrase for anything considered eco- friendly
In general, things that are not environmentally harmful.
When you are mad
Why are some Christians disinterested in environmental issues?
They are concerned with the imbalance of people valuing animal life over or equal to human life, or the spiritual reverence for nature that secular environmentalists adopt.
Some environmentalists worship the creation rather than the Creator
Recycling, reusing and reducing things are just useless causes.
The political rhetoric that the world is heading toward a catastrophic, civilization-ending global climate change caused by pollution and human intrusion distracts from the good news in the Bible.
Ecotourism is
Visiting a recycling facility that processes items like glass, plastics, and paper products.
Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.
Going through a community planting exotic plants that are not indigenous.
Touring arboretums and other plant based science centers.
