Final Exam ENST 2030 | 2026/2027 | Correct Answers | With
Complete Solutions
1. What are fossil fuels?
2. What does it mean that they are non-renewable? Correct
Answers 1. A natural fuel, such as coal or gas, formed in the
geological past from the remains of living organisms
2. The organic matter from which fossil fuels are derived took
millions of years to become coal, petroleum, and natural gas
1. What are trophic levels?
2. What levels do wolves occupy?
3. What is rewilding? Correct Answers 1. Parallels of energy
assimilation and transfer within ecological food webs
2. Wolves are apex predators/top carnivores
3. a practice of conservation where ecological functions and
evolutionary process, which are thought to have existed in past
ecosystems or before human influence, are deliberately
restored/created; often requires the reintroduction of large
predators to ecosystems
1. What is Cap and Trade/Share? How does it work? Correct
Answers A market based system to manage environmental
pollutants where a total limit is placed on all emissions in a
jurisdiction, and individual people or firms possess transferable
shares of that total, theoretically leading to the most efficient
overall system to maintain and reduce pollutant levels overall.
1. What is the argument for opposing Tanzania's proposal to sell
its elephant ivory stockpiles?
,2. The argument in support of allowing Tanzania to sell the
stockpiles? Correct Answers 1. it is difficult to decipher what is
legal ivory and what is illegal ivory.. did it come from the
stockpiles or did it come from a recently poached elephant
2. Argument to allow them to sell is that they are one of the
poorest countries in the world and they would benefit greatly
from the money.Tanzania proposed that the money they make
from selling the stockpile goes back into elephant conservation
1. What percentage of China's middle class owns ivory?
2. What percentage says they'll buy ivory? Correct Answers 1.
80%
2. 84%
1. What superfund is and the issue that lead to its creation
2. GA superfund/EPA region number Correct Answers 1. A US
federal program designed to fund the cleanup of toxic wastes;
the Lovecanal toxic waste disaster lead to its creation
2. Georgia EPA region number is 4; GA has 16 superfund sites
5 Events that contributed to the development of the
environmental movement in the United States Correct Answers
1. Silent Spring publication
2. Cuyahoga River (Ohio) catching fire from pollution
3. Love Canal Incident
4. Earthrise Photo
5. Earth Day
According to Robbins, what percent of mainstream
environmental organizations membership comprises of women?
Correct Answers 60 to 80%
, Aldo Leopold's (1)Land Ethic Principal and (2)Moral
Extensionism Correct Answers 1. Philosophy/theoretical
framework about how, ethically, humans should regard the land.
2. an argument in environmental ethics that moral standing
ought to be extended to things that are not traditionally thought
to have morals (plants/animals)
aquaponics Correct Answers The combination of fish farming
and growing plants without soil (hydroponics).
Based on the Love Canal video, how were women affected
differently than men by the pollution? Correct Answers
miscarriages, still-births, birth defects
Basel Action Network (BAN) Correct Answers Non-
governmental organization that works to combat the export of
toxic waste from technology and other products from
industrialized countries to developing countries.
Basel Convention Correct Answers A treaty developed in 1989
by the UN Environment Program to restrict the international
transport of hazardous waste from developed to less developed
countries
Berta Cáceres Correct Answers Human rights activist who
fought for indigenous rights and environmental preservation in
the early 90s; fought in defense of the land and indigenous rights
Campaigned against the the Agua Zarca Dam, which was slated
for construction on a sacred river - dam would also cut off
resources to the Lenca people
Complete Solutions
1. What are fossil fuels?
2. What does it mean that they are non-renewable? Correct
Answers 1. A natural fuel, such as coal or gas, formed in the
geological past from the remains of living organisms
2. The organic matter from which fossil fuels are derived took
millions of years to become coal, petroleum, and natural gas
1. What are trophic levels?
2. What levels do wolves occupy?
3. What is rewilding? Correct Answers 1. Parallels of energy
assimilation and transfer within ecological food webs
2. Wolves are apex predators/top carnivores
3. a practice of conservation where ecological functions and
evolutionary process, which are thought to have existed in past
ecosystems or before human influence, are deliberately
restored/created; often requires the reintroduction of large
predators to ecosystems
1. What is Cap and Trade/Share? How does it work? Correct
Answers A market based system to manage environmental
pollutants where a total limit is placed on all emissions in a
jurisdiction, and individual people or firms possess transferable
shares of that total, theoretically leading to the most efficient
overall system to maintain and reduce pollutant levels overall.
1. What is the argument for opposing Tanzania's proposal to sell
its elephant ivory stockpiles?
,2. The argument in support of allowing Tanzania to sell the
stockpiles? Correct Answers 1. it is difficult to decipher what is
legal ivory and what is illegal ivory.. did it come from the
stockpiles or did it come from a recently poached elephant
2. Argument to allow them to sell is that they are one of the
poorest countries in the world and they would benefit greatly
from the money.Tanzania proposed that the money they make
from selling the stockpile goes back into elephant conservation
1. What percentage of China's middle class owns ivory?
2. What percentage says they'll buy ivory? Correct Answers 1.
80%
2. 84%
1. What superfund is and the issue that lead to its creation
2. GA superfund/EPA region number Correct Answers 1. A US
federal program designed to fund the cleanup of toxic wastes;
the Lovecanal toxic waste disaster lead to its creation
2. Georgia EPA region number is 4; GA has 16 superfund sites
5 Events that contributed to the development of the
environmental movement in the United States Correct Answers
1. Silent Spring publication
2. Cuyahoga River (Ohio) catching fire from pollution
3. Love Canal Incident
4. Earthrise Photo
5. Earth Day
According to Robbins, what percent of mainstream
environmental organizations membership comprises of women?
Correct Answers 60 to 80%
, Aldo Leopold's (1)Land Ethic Principal and (2)Moral
Extensionism Correct Answers 1. Philosophy/theoretical
framework about how, ethically, humans should regard the land.
2. an argument in environmental ethics that moral standing
ought to be extended to things that are not traditionally thought
to have morals (plants/animals)
aquaponics Correct Answers The combination of fish farming
and growing plants without soil (hydroponics).
Based on the Love Canal video, how were women affected
differently than men by the pollution? Correct Answers
miscarriages, still-births, birth defects
Basel Action Network (BAN) Correct Answers Non-
governmental organization that works to combat the export of
toxic waste from technology and other products from
industrialized countries to developing countries.
Basel Convention Correct Answers A treaty developed in 1989
by the UN Environment Program to restrict the international
transport of hazardous waste from developed to less developed
countries
Berta Cáceres Correct Answers Human rights activist who
fought for indigenous rights and environmental preservation in
the early 90s; fought in defense of the land and indigenous rights
Campaigned against the the Agua Zarca Dam, which was slated
for construction on a sacred river - dam would also cut off
resources to the Lenca people
