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Ecology and Environment test

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the environment? Mark all the options that are correct.

a)

Everything around us.

b)

Everything except nonliving things.

c)

The complex web of relationships that connect us.

d)

An interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment.

2.

What are the goals of environmental science? Mark all the options that are correct.

a)

To learn how humans interact with animals.

b)

To learn how the environment affects humans.

c)

To learn how humans affect the environment.

d)

How to live more sustainably.

3.

These are the major fields of study related to Environmental Science. Only one option is correct.

a)

Biology

Chemistry

Archaeology

Historical sciences

b)

Earth science

Biology

Geometry

Humanities

c)

Biology

Chemistry

Earth science

Humanities

d)

Humanities

Chemistry

Earth science

Law

4.

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.)

a)

Environmentalism

b)

Natural capital

c)

Ecology

d)

Sustainability

5.

The circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment thrrough organisms and back to the environment is called.. (Only one option is correct.)

a)

Solar capital

b)

Nutrient cycle

c)

Natural resource

d)

Natural capital

6.

GDP stands for... (Only one option is correct.)

a)

GRASS

DOMESTIC

PRODUCE

b)

GROSS

DOMESTIC

PRODUCT

c)

GREAT

DYNAMIC

PROCEDURE

d)

GRAND

DIVERSE

POTENTIAL

7.

Which of the following are renewable resources? (More than one option is possible.)

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

Which of the previous options is considered a perpetual resource? (Only one option is possible.)

a)

Solar energy

b)

Wind energy

c)

Oil energy

d)

Water energy

9.

Which kind of resources exist in a fixed quantity, or stock, in the earth's crust? (Only one option is correct.)

a)

Renewable resources

b)

Nonrenewable resources

10.

Ecological deficit means... (Only one option is correct.)

a)

...that the ecological footprint is smaller than a country's biological capacity.

b)

...that the per capita ecological footprint is smaller than a country's biological capacity.

c)

...that the biological capacity of a country is equivalent to the ecological footprint of that country.

d)

...that the biological capacity of a country is smaller than its ecological footprint.

11.

Which cultural changes have increased our ecological footprints? (More than one option is correct.)

a)

The industrial-medical revolution

b)

The environmental revolution

c)

The information-globalization revolution

d)

The agricultural revolution

12.

The difference between Point sources of pullution and Nonpoint sources of pollution is that Nonpoint sources are dispersed and often difficult to identify.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

13.

Biodegradable pollutants are harmful materials that natural processes cannot break down.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

14.

Mark all the options that are considered causes of environmental problems:

a)

Population growth

b)

Education

c)

Unsustainable resource use

d)

Poverty

e)

Excluding environmental costs from market prices

15.

Which are the effects of poverty on the enavironment and on people's health? (More than one option is possible.)

a)

Population growth

b)

Malnutrition

c)

Limited access to to adequate sanitation facilities

d)

Severe respiratory disease