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For environmental science: a global concern 16th
edition by william p. Cunningham 2026
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Table of contents
1 Understanding our environment
2 Principles of science and systems
3 Matter, energy, and life
4 Evolution, biological communities, and species
interactions
5 Biomes: global patterns of life
6 Population biology
7 Human populations
8 Environmental health and toxicology
9 Food and hunger
10 Farming: conventional and sustainable practices
11 Biodiversity: preserving species
12 Biodiversity: preserving landscapes
13 Restoration ecology
14 Geology and earth resources
15 Climate systems and climate change
16 Air pollution
17 Water use and management
18 Water pollution
19 Conventional energy
20 Sustainable energy
21 Solid, toxic, and hazardous waste
22 Urbanization and sustainable cities
23 Ecological economics
24 Environmental policy, law, and planning
25 What then shall we do?
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Chapter 01. Understanding our environment.
1) To say that environmental science is mission oriented means it is
A) A highly organized endeavor.
B) Essentially an information gathering endeavor.
C) Oriented toward solving problems.
D) Designed to understand relationships.
2) If everyone in the world lived a lifestyle similar to the average u.s. Citizen we would need more planets to
support everyone.
A) Two
B) Four
C) Six
D) Eight
3) About of the world's people currently lack access to clean water, adequate diet, basic sanitation, and other essential needs.
A) 100 million
B) 300 million
C) 700 million
D) 1.4 billion
4) Sustainable development means
A) Improving people's lives in the present in a way that can continue far into the future.
B) Providing ever-increasing amounts of adequate housing.
C) Continued growth indefinitely as long as it can be paid off.
D) Utilizing an ever-increasing quantity of natural resources.
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5) The earliest documented recognition that misuse of the natural environment can have nasty consequences
was
A) George perkins marsh's 1864 publication of man and nature.
B) Rachel carson's silent spring, alerting the public to the dangers of pollution in 1962.
C) Roosevelt's warnings about overuse a century ago.
D) Plato's writings 2500 years ago.
6) Which of the following presently provides 80 percent of the energy used in industrialized countries?
A) Fossil fuels
B) Wind
C) Hydroelectric power
D) Solar
7) The position that nature deserves to be protected in its own right is called
A) Biocentric preservation.
B) Utilitarian conservation.
C) Environmentalism.
D) Global environmentalism.
8) Constitutes 4.6 percent of the world's people yet produces about 50 percent of all toxic waste.
A) China
B) Germany
C) Russia
D) The united states
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Test bank
For environmental science: a global concern 16th
edition by william p. Cunningham 2026
, Stuvia.com - The Marketplace to Buy and Sell your Study Material
Table of contents
1 Understanding our environment
2 Principles of science and systems
3 Matter, energy, and life
4 Evolution, biological communities, and species
interactions
5 Biomes: global patterns of life
6 Population biology
7 Human populations
8 Environmental health and toxicology
9 Food and hunger
10 Farming: conventional and sustainable practices
11 Biodiversity: preserving species
12 Biodiversity: preserving landscapes
13 Restoration ecology
14 Geology and earth resources
15 Climate systems and climate change
16 Air pollution
17 Water use and management
18 Water pollution
19 Conventional energy
20 Sustainable energy
21 Solid, toxic, and hazardous waste
22 Urbanization and sustainable cities
23 Ecological economics
24 Environmental policy, law, and planning
25 What then shall we do?
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Chapter 01. Understanding our environment.
1) To say that environmental science is mission oriented means it is
A) A highly organized endeavor.
B) Essentially an information gathering endeavor.
C) Oriented toward solving problems.
D) Designed to understand relationships.
2) If everyone in the world lived a lifestyle similar to the average u.s. Citizen we would need more planets to
support everyone.
A) Two
B) Four
C) Six
D) Eight
3) About of the world's people currently lack access to clean water, adequate diet, basic sanitation, and other essential needs.
A) 100 million
B) 300 million
C) 700 million
D) 1.4 billion
4) Sustainable development means
A) Improving people's lives in the present in a way that can continue far into the future.
B) Providing ever-increasing amounts of adequate housing.
C) Continued growth indefinitely as long as it can be paid off.
D) Utilizing an ever-increasing quantity of natural resources.
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5) The earliest documented recognition that misuse of the natural environment can have nasty consequences
was
A) George perkins marsh's 1864 publication of man and nature.
B) Rachel carson's silent spring, alerting the public to the dangers of pollution in 1962.
C) Roosevelt's warnings about overuse a century ago.
D) Plato's writings 2500 years ago.
6) Which of the following presently provides 80 percent of the energy used in industrialized countries?
A) Fossil fuels
B) Wind
C) Hydroelectric power
D) Solar
7) The position that nature deserves to be protected in its own right is called
A) Biocentric preservation.
B) Utilitarian conservation.
C) Environmentalism.
D) Global environmentalism.
8) Constitutes 4.6 percent of the world's people yet produces about 50 percent of all toxic waste.
A) China
B) Germany
C) Russia
D) The united states
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