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CH 01. Understanding Our Environment.
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1) To say that environmental science is mission oriented means it is
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A) a highly organized endeavor. bh bh b h
B) essentially an information gathering endeavor. bh bh b h bh
C) oriented toward solving problems. bh b h bh
D) designed to understand relationships. bh bh b h
2) If everyone in the world lived a lifestyle similar to the average U.S. citizen we would need
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more planets to support everyone. bh b h b h b h
A) two
B) four
C) six
D) eight
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of the world's people currently lack access to clean water, ad bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh
equate diet, basic sanitation, and other essential needs.
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A) 100 million b h
B) 300 million b h
C) 700 million b h
D) 1.4 billion b h
4) Sustainabledevelopment means h
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A) improving people's lives in the present in a way that can continue far into the future.
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B) providing ever-increasing amounts of adequate housing. bh b h bh bh bh
C) continued growth indefinitely as long as it can be paid off. bh b h b h b h b h b h bh b h b h b h
D) utilizing an ever-increasing quantity of natural resources. bh bh b h bh bh b h
5) The earliest documented recognition that misuse of the natural environment can ha
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ve nasty consequences was
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A) George Perkins Marsh's 1864 publication of Man and Nature.
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,B) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, alerting the public to the dangers of pollution in 1962.
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C) Roosevelt's warnings about overuse a century ago.
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D) Plato's writings 2500 years ago.
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, 6) Which of the following presently provides 80 percent of the energy used in i
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ndustrialized countries? bh
A) fossil fuels bh
B) wind
C) hydroelectric power bh
D) solar
7) The position that nature deserves to be protected in its own right is called
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A) biocentric preservation. bh
B) utilitarian conservation. bh
C) environmentalism.
D) global environmentalism. bh
8)
constitutes 4.6 percent of the world's people yet produces about 50 percent of
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all toxic waste.
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A) China
B) Germany
C) Russia
D) The United States b h b h
9) The text suggests there is not a strong connection between poverty an
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d environmental degradation.
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⊚ true
⊚ false
10) Most people agree that global climate change is not a real environmental threat.
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⊚ true
⊚ false
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