Ecology Final Exam Study Guide 2024-2025 Exam
Question And Answers
What is sustainability?
A. Living in a manner that can be lived far into the future
B. The ability to produce food using a little less fertilizer
C. Searching for new fossil fuel resources
D. Sustaining the use of resources in the present -
✔ANASWER✔-A
Which of the following is a major approach to sustainability?
A. Pursing symptomatically driven solutions
B. Setting up a hydraulic fracturing system
C. Pursing systemic solutions
D. Thinking in the here and now - ✔ANASWER✔-C
One of the principal tenets of sustainability is __________ justice.
,A. Legal
B. Texas
C. Social
D. Corporate - ✔ANASWER✔-C
Human processes of manufacturing would be more sustainable if
they were run __________.
A. on a neoclassical model
B. On the capitalist model
C. On a linear model
D. On a circular model - ✔ANASWER✔-D
What is the role of local self-sufficiency in building sustainable
societies?
A. It is often opposed by individuals but favored by governments
and multinational organizations like the World Trade Organization.
B. It is not a critical factor.
C. It can be valuable because people are tied more closely to the
area where they live.
D. It can be overlooked in the short term because there is nothing
to be gained from consuming locally produced goods. -
✔ANASWER✔-C
,What would be more effective than taking the symptomatic
approach (addressing the symptoms) in solving environmental
problems, or problems of sustainability?
A. A population based solution, based on minimizing the
population
B. A systemic solution, one that views the whole system and
seeks the root cause
C. Quality of life solutions, made by changing the way we
approach our daily decisions
D. A long term solution, preventing problems from accumulating -
✔ANASWER✔-B
Most economists and policy makers focus their efforts on
maintaining economic growth for its own end; however, growth is
only a means to an end. Which of these would be a better goal to
use when formulating economic policy?
A. Technological advances
B. An increase in human happiness and not simply growth in
material wealth
C. Accumulation of material goods
D. Direct intervention of the government to work for sustainability -
✔ANASWER✔-B
What is generally true concerning family income and happiness?
A. As average income rose from 1955 to 1995, the number of
very happy people rose sharply.
, B. There is a huge difference in happiness between those who
have family incomes of $70,000 and those who make more than
$100,000 a year.
C. Money cannot buy us as much happiness as our culture has
led us to believe
D. People with family incomes of more than $200,000 are
unhappier than those who make less than $20,000. -
✔ANASWER✔-C
Which sustainable solution seeks to transform linear systems to
circular ones with the goal of zero waste generation?
A. Population stability
B. green technologies
C. Mimicking nature
D. consumer power - ✔ANASWER✔-C
Catalytic converters on cars are an example of which strategy
toward sustainable solutions?
A. Population stability
B. Systemic soultions
C. Green technologies
D. Mimicking Nature - ✔ANASWER✔-C
Economics has traditionally followed the classical model, whose
main goal is growth. This, in part, has led to our current
Question And Answers
What is sustainability?
A. Living in a manner that can be lived far into the future
B. The ability to produce food using a little less fertilizer
C. Searching for new fossil fuel resources
D. Sustaining the use of resources in the present -
✔ANASWER✔-A
Which of the following is a major approach to sustainability?
A. Pursing symptomatically driven solutions
B. Setting up a hydraulic fracturing system
C. Pursing systemic solutions
D. Thinking in the here and now - ✔ANASWER✔-C
One of the principal tenets of sustainability is __________ justice.
,A. Legal
B. Texas
C. Social
D. Corporate - ✔ANASWER✔-C
Human processes of manufacturing would be more sustainable if
they were run __________.
A. on a neoclassical model
B. On the capitalist model
C. On a linear model
D. On a circular model - ✔ANASWER✔-D
What is the role of local self-sufficiency in building sustainable
societies?
A. It is often opposed by individuals but favored by governments
and multinational organizations like the World Trade Organization.
B. It is not a critical factor.
C. It can be valuable because people are tied more closely to the
area where they live.
D. It can be overlooked in the short term because there is nothing
to be gained from consuming locally produced goods. -
✔ANASWER✔-C
,What would be more effective than taking the symptomatic
approach (addressing the symptoms) in solving environmental
problems, or problems of sustainability?
A. A population based solution, based on minimizing the
population
B. A systemic solution, one that views the whole system and
seeks the root cause
C. Quality of life solutions, made by changing the way we
approach our daily decisions
D. A long term solution, preventing problems from accumulating -
✔ANASWER✔-B
Most economists and policy makers focus their efforts on
maintaining economic growth for its own end; however, growth is
only a means to an end. Which of these would be a better goal to
use when formulating economic policy?
A. Technological advances
B. An increase in human happiness and not simply growth in
material wealth
C. Accumulation of material goods
D. Direct intervention of the government to work for sustainability -
✔ANASWER✔-B
What is generally true concerning family income and happiness?
A. As average income rose from 1955 to 1995, the number of
very happy people rose sharply.
, B. There is a huge difference in happiness between those who
have family incomes of $70,000 and those who make more than
$100,000 a year.
C. Money cannot buy us as much happiness as our culture has
led us to believe
D. People with family incomes of more than $200,000 are
unhappier than those who make less than $20,000. -
✔ANASWER✔-C
Which sustainable solution seeks to transform linear systems to
circular ones with the goal of zero waste generation?
A. Population stability
B. green technologies
C. Mimicking nature
D. consumer power - ✔ANASWER✔-C
Catalytic converters on cars are an example of which strategy
toward sustainable solutions?
A. Population stability
B. Systemic soultions
C. Green technologies
D. Mimicking Nature - ✔ANASWER✔-C
Economics has traditionally followed the classical model, whose
main goal is growth. This, in part, has led to our current
