TEST BANK
Environmental Science: A Global Concern
William P. Cunningham
17th Edition
Chapters 1-26 (Questions with Verified Answers)
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,Table of Contents
Part I: Understanding Our Environment
1. Understanding Our Environment
2. Environmental Systems, Economics, and Sustainability
3. Science, Systems, Matter, and Energy
Part II: Living Things in Their Environment
4. Evolution, Biological Communities, and Species Interactions
5. Biomes and Biodiversity
6. Population Ecology
7. Human Populations
Part III: Human Impact on the Environment
8. Environmental Health and Toxicology
9. Food and Hunger
10. Conventional Agriculture
11. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production
12. Biodiversity Conservation
13. Restoration Ecology
Part IV: Resources
14. Geology and Earth Resources
15. Non-renewable Mineral Resources
16. Energy
17. Fossil Fuels
18. Nuclear Energy
19. Renewable Energy and Conservation
Part V: Environmental Pollution
20. Water Resources
21. Water Pollution
22. Atmospheric Science and Air Pollution
23. Climate Change
24. Waste Management
Part VI: Toward a Sustainable Future
25. Economics and Urbanization
26. Environmental Policy and Sustainability
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,CH 01. Understanding Our Environment.
(ANSWERS AT THE END OF EVERY CHAPTER)
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.
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.
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, 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
9) The text suggests there is not a strong connection between poverty and environmental
degradation.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) Most people agree that global climate change is not a real environmental threat.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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Environmental Science: A Global Concern
William P. Cunningham
17th Edition
Chapters 1-26 (Questions with Verified Answers)
1
,Table of Contents
Part I: Understanding Our Environment
1. Understanding Our Environment
2. Environmental Systems, Economics, and Sustainability
3. Science, Systems, Matter, and Energy
Part II: Living Things in Their Environment
4. Evolution, Biological Communities, and Species Interactions
5. Biomes and Biodiversity
6. Population Ecology
7. Human Populations
Part III: Human Impact on the Environment
8. Environmental Health and Toxicology
9. Food and Hunger
10. Conventional Agriculture
11. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production
12. Biodiversity Conservation
13. Restoration Ecology
Part IV: Resources
14. Geology and Earth Resources
15. Non-renewable Mineral Resources
16. Energy
17. Fossil Fuels
18. Nuclear Energy
19. Renewable Energy and Conservation
Part V: Environmental Pollution
20. Water Resources
21. Water Pollution
22. Atmospheric Science and Air Pollution
23. Climate Change
24. Waste Management
Part VI: Toward a Sustainable Future
25. Economics and Urbanization
26. Environmental Policy and Sustainability
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,CH 01. Understanding Our Environment.
(ANSWERS AT THE END OF EVERY CHAPTER)
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.
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.
3
, 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
9) The text suggests there is not a strong connection between poverty and environmental
degradation.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) Most people agree that global climate change is not a real environmental threat.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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