Test Bank – Environmental Science: A Global Concern (Cunningham &
Cunningham, 16th Edition – Loose-Leaf) | 2025 Revised & Verified,
Complete Chapters 1–25 + Answers Included
All Answers at the Back of Each Chapter
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, CH 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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, ⊚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
11) By 2050, the earth is projected to have a population between
A) 8 and 10 billion.
B) 7 and 8 billion.
C) 8 and 9 billion.
D) 10 and 12 billion.
⊚12) Loss of indigenous cultures is accompanied by loss of unique understanding of nature.
⊚ true
false
13) An important reason for determining the size of a society's ecological footprint is to determine the
⊚sustainability of its lifestyle.
⊚ true
false
14) One of the earliest models for conservation in the United States was based on utilitarian conservation,
⊚for which nature was conserved not to protect biodiversity, but to provide jobs and resources.
⊚ true
false
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Cunningham, 16th Edition – Loose-Leaf) | 2025 Revised & Verified,
Complete Chapters 1–25 + Answers Included
All Answers at the Back of Each Chapter
Page | 1
, CH 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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, ⊚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
11) By 2050, the earth is projected to have a population between
A) 8 and 10 billion.
B) 7 and 8 billion.
C) 8 and 9 billion.
D) 10 and 12 billion.
⊚12) Loss of indigenous cultures is accompanied by loss of unique understanding of nature.
⊚ true
false
13) An important reason for determining the size of a society's ecological footprint is to determine the
⊚sustainability of its lifestyle.
⊚ true
false
14) One of the earliest models for conservation in the United States was based on utilitarian conservation,
⊚for which nature was conserved not to protect biodiversity, but to provide jobs and resources.
⊚ true
false
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