WorksheetsEcology and Environment test
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
What is the environment? Mark all the options that are correct.
Everything around us.
Everything except nonliving things.
The complex web of relationships that connect us.
An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment.
What are the goals of environmental science? Mark all the options that are correct.
To learn how humans interact with animals.
To learn how the environment affects humans.
To learn how humans affect the environment.
How to live more sustainably.
These are the major fields of study related to Environmental Science. Only one option is correct.
Biology
Chemistry
Archaeology
Historical sciences
Earth science
Biology
Geometry
Humanities
Biology
Chemistry
Earth science
Humanities
Humanities
Chemistry
Earth science
Law
The ability of the earth's various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely is called... (Only one option is correct.)
Environmentalism
Natural capital
Ecology
Sustainability
The circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment thrrough organisms and back to the environment is called.. (Only one option is correct.)
Solar capital
Nutrient cycle
Natural resource
Natural capital
GDP stands for... (Only one option is correct.)
GRASS
DOMESTIC
PRODUCE
GROSS
DOMESTIC
PRODUCT
GREAT
DYNAMIC
PROCEDURE
GRAND
DIVERSE
POTENTIAL
Which of the following are renewable resources? (More than one option is possible.)
Which of the previous options is considered a perpetual resource? (Only one option is possible.)
Solar energy
Wind energy
Oil energy
Water energy
Which kind of resources exist in a fixed quantity, or stock, in the earth's crust? (Only one option is correct.)
Renewable resources
Nonrenewable resources
Ecological deficit means... (Only one option is correct.)
...that the ecological footprint is smaller than a country's biological capacity.
...that the per capita ecological footprint is smaller than a country's biological capacity.
...that the biological capacity of a country is equivalent to the ecological footprint of that country.
...that the biological capacity of a country is smaller than its ecological footprint.
Which cultural changes have increased our ecological footprints? (More than one option is correct.)
The industrial-medical revolution
The environmental revolution
The information-globalization revolution
The agricultural revolution
The difference between Point sources of pullution and Nonpoint sources of pollution is that Nonpoint sources are dispersed and often difficult to identify.
TRUE
FALSE
Biodegradable pollutants are harmful materials that natural processes cannot break down.
TRUE
FALSE
Mark all the options that are considered causes of environmental problems:
Population growth
Education
Unsustainable resource use
Poverty
Excluding environmental costs from market prices
Which are the effects of poverty on the enavironment and on people's health? (More than one option is possible.)
Population growth
Malnutrition
Limited access to to adequate sanitation facilities
Severe respiratory disease
