Environmental Science A Global Concern Test Bank

Environmental Science A Global
Concern Test Bank


TEST BANK
Environmental Science A Global Concern 16/E William
Cunningham
CH 01. Understanding Our Environment.
Question: 1) To say that environmental science is mission oriented means it
is
A) a highly organized endeavor.
B) essentially an information gathering endeavor.
C) oriented toward solving problems.
D) designed to understand relationships.
Answer:


Question: 2) If everyone in the world lived a lifestyle similar to the average
U.S. citizen we would need
________ more planets to support everyone.
A) two
B) four
C) six
D) eight
Answer:


Question: 3) About ________ of the world's people currently lack access to
clean water, adequate diet,
basic sanitation, and other essential needs.
A) 100 million

,B) 300 million
C) 700 million
D) 1.4 billion
Answer:


Question: 4) Sustainable development means
A) improving people's lives in the present in a way that can continue far into
the
future. B) providing ever-increasing amounts of adequate housing.
C) continued growth indefinitely as long as it can be paid off.
D) utilizing an ever-increasing quantity of natural resources.
Answer:


Question: 5) The earliest documented recognition that misuse of the natural
environment can have nasty
consequences was
A) George Perkins Marsh's 1864 publication of Man and Nature.
B) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, alerting the public to the dangers of
pollution in 1962.
C) Roosevelt's warnings about overuse a century ago.
D) Plato's writings 2500 years ago.
extra per year?
extra per year?
Answer:


Question: 6) Which of the following presently provides 80 percent of the
energy used in industrialized
countries?
A) fossil fuels
B) wind
C) hydroelectric power
D) solar
Answer:

,Question: 7) The position that nature deserves to be protected in its own
right is called
A) biocentric preservation.
B) utilitarian conservation.
C) environmentalism.
D) global environmentalism.
Answer:


Question: 8) ________ constitutes 4.6 percent of the world's people yet
produces about 50 percent of all
toxic waste.
A) China
B) Germany
C) Russia
D) The United States
Answer:


Question: 9) The text suggests there is not a strong connection between
poverty and
environmental
degradation.
⊚true
⊚false
Answer:


Question: 10) Most people agree that global climate change is not a real
environmental
threat.⊚true
⊚false
extra per year?
Answer:


Question: 11) By 2050, the earth is projected to have a population
between A) 8 and 10 billion.

, B) 7 and 8 billion.
C) 8 and 9 billion.
D) 10 and 12 billion.
Answer:


Question: 12) Loss of indigenous cultures is accompanied by loss of unique
understanding of
nature.⊚true
⊚false
Answer:


Question: 13) An important reason for determining the size of a society's
ecological footprint is to
determine the sustainability of its lifestyle.
⊚true
⊚false
Answer:


Question: 14) One of the earliest models for conservation in the United
States was based on utilitarian
conservation, for which nature was conserved not to protect biodiversity, but
to provide jobs
and resources.
⊚true
⊚false
Answer:


Question: 15) The first Nobel Prize for environmental action was awarded
A) in 1912 to John Muir.
B) in 1973 to David Brower.
C) in 2004 to Wangari Maathai.
D) in 1935 to Aldo Leopold.