Environmental Science – full test bank – 17th Edition, G. Tyler Miller – Chapters 1–17 – verified exam questions

TEST BANK
Environmental Science , 17th Edition
By G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman
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,Table of Content
Humans and Sustainability: An Overview

Chapter 1. The Environment and Sustainability

Ecology and Sustainability

Chapter 2. Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems
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Chapter 3. Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?

Chapter 4. Biodiversity and Evolution

Chapter 5. Species Interactions, Ecological Succession, and Population Control
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Chapter 6. The Human Population and Urbanization

Chapter 7. Climate and Ecosystem Biodiversity
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Sustaining Biodiversity
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Chapter 8. Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Species

Chapter 9. Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Ecosystems

Sustaining Resources and Environmental Quality
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Chapter 10. Food Production and the Environment

Chapter 11. Water Resources and Water Pollution
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Chapter 12. Geology and Nonrenewable Mineral Resources

Chapter 13. Energy Resources
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Chapter 14. Environmental Hazards and Human Health

Chapter 15. Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion

Chapter 16. Solid and Hazardous Waste

Sustaining Human Societies

Chapter 17. Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews

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1. A major argument against environmental laws is that they hinder economic growth.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True

2. Ecology is an important component of environmental science.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True

3. Sustainability refers to the ability of the earth’s natural system and human cultural systems to survive, thrive, and adapt
to changing environmental conditions well into the future.
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b. False
ANSWER: True
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4. Ecosystem services have no economic value.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: False

5. Natural resources are considered natural capital, whereas ecosystem services are not.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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6. Exponential growth occurs when a quantity such as the human population increases at a certain rate over a specified
unit of time, such as 0.5% or 2% per year.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: True

7. Government subsidies can hide the true environmental costs of doing business.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: True

8. In contrast to the life-centered worldview, the human-centered environmental worldview considers all species as having
value as participating members of the biosphere regardless of their potential or actual use to humans.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False

9. Biomimicry prioritizes the use of technology to restore natural capital and reduce its degradation and depletion.

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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False

10. Resource use per person is higher in the United States than it is in middle-income countries like China.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: True

11. The book Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, described progress in reducing pollution and showed that pesticides like
DDT were no longer a concern due to effective environmental programs.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: False

12. An ecosystem that is biologically diverse has a greater chance of surviving a change in the environment, such as a
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drought.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: True

13. Inexhaustible resources exist in a fixed quantity, or stock, in the earth’s crust.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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14. One social science principle of sustainability is that we should leave the planet’s life-support systems in at least as
good a condition as that which we now enjoy, if not better, for future generations.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: True

15. The tragedy of the commons is a phenomenon that occurs when governments specify a limit for commonly used
resources.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False

16. Natural capital degradation is a consequence of living unsustainably.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True

17. In nature, chemicals are recycled rather than becoming waste.

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