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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
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
Chapter 6. The Human Population and Urbanization
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Chapter 7. Climate and Ecosystem Biodiversity
Sustaining Biodiversity
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Chapter 8. Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Species
Chapter 9. Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Ecosystems
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Sustaining Resources and Environmental Quality
Chapter 10. Food Production and the Environment
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Chapter 11. Water Resources and Water Pollution
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
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Chapter 16. Solid and Hazardous Waste
Sustaining Human Societies
Chapter 17. Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews
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Chapter 01
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.
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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a. True
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
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b. False
ANSWER: False
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.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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7. Government subsidies can hide the true environmental costs of doing business.
a. True
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
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
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b. False
ANSWER: False
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12. An ecosystem that is biologically diverse has a greater chance of surviving a change in the environment, such as a
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
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b. False
ANSWER: False
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.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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15. The tragedy of the commons is a phenomenon that occurs when governments specify a limit for commonly used
resources.
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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Environmental Science, 17th Edition
w By G. Miller, Scott Spoolman
hi
zz
nu
rs
e
, Table of Content
Humans and Sustainability: An Overview
Chapter 1. The Environment and Sustainability
Ecology and Sustainability
Chapter 2. Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems
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
Chapter 6. The Human Population and Urbanization
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Chapter 7. Climate and Ecosystem Biodiversity
Sustaining Biodiversity
hi
Chapter 8. Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Species
Chapter 9. Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Ecosystems
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Sustaining Resources and Environmental Quality
Chapter 10. Food Production and the Environment
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Chapter 11. Water Resources and Water Pollution
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
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Chapter 16. Solid and Hazardous Waste
Sustaining Human Societies
Chapter 17. Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews
,Name Class Dat
: : e:
Chapter 01
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.
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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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
hi
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
nu
b. False
ANSWER: False
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.
rs
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
e
7. Government subsidies can hide the true environmental costs of doing business.
a. True
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
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
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b. False
ANSWER: False
hi
12. An ecosystem that is biologically diverse has a greater chance of surviving a change in the environment, such as a
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
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b. False
ANSWER: False
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.
rs
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
e
15. The tragedy of the commons is a phenomenon that occurs when governments specify a limit for commonly used
resources.
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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