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Ecology Final Exam Study
Guide 2025-2026 Exam
Question And Answers
What is sustainability?
A. Living in a manner that can be lived far into the future
B. The ability to produce food using a little less fertilizer
C. Searching for new fossil fuel resources
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D. Sustaining the use of resources in the present -
✔ANASWER✔-A
Which of the following is a major approach to sustainability?
A. Pursing symptomatically driven solutions
B. Setting up a hydraulic fracturing system
C. Pursing systemic solutions
D. Thinking in the here and now - ✔ANASWER✔-C
One of the principal tenets of sustainability is __________ justice.
A. Legal
B. Texas
C. Social
D. Corporate - ✔ANASWER✔-C
Human processes of manufacturing would be more sustainable if they
were run __________. A. on a neoclassical model
B. On the capitalist model
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C. On a linear model
D. On a circular model - ✔ANASWER✔-D
What is the role of local self-sufficiency in building sustainable
societies?
A. It is often opposed by individuals but favored by governments and
multinational organizations like the World Trade Organization. B. It is
not a critical factor.
C. It can be valuable because people are tied more closely to the area
where they live.
D. It can be overlooked in the short term because there is nothing to
be gained from consuming locally produced goods. -
✔ANASWER✔-C
What would be more effective than taking the symptomatic approach
(addressing the symptoms) in solving environmental problems, or
problems of sustainability?
A. A population based solution, based on minimizing the population
B. A systemic solution, one that views the whole system and seeks the
root cause
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C. Quality of life solutions, made by changing the way we approach our
daily decisions
D. A long term solution, preventing problems from accumulating -
✔ANASWER✔-B
Most economists and policy makers focus their efforts on maintaining
economic growth for its own end; however, growth is only a means to an
end. Which of these would be a better goal to use when formulating
economic policy?
A. Technological advances
B. An increase in human happiness and not simply growth in material
wealth
C. Accumulation of material goods
D. Direct intervention of the government to work for sustainability -
✔ANASWER✔-B
What is generally true concerning family income and happiness?
A. As average income rose from 1955 to 1995, the number of very
happy people rose sharply.
Ecology Final Exam Study
Guide 2025-2026 Exam
Question And Answers
What is sustainability?
A. Living in a manner that can be lived far into the future
B. The ability to produce food using a little less fertilizer
C. Searching for new fossil fuel resources
,2|Page
D. Sustaining the use of resources in the present -
✔ANASWER✔-A
Which of the following is a major approach to sustainability?
A. Pursing symptomatically driven solutions
B. Setting up a hydraulic fracturing system
C. Pursing systemic solutions
D. Thinking in the here and now - ✔ANASWER✔-C
One of the principal tenets of sustainability is __________ justice.
A. Legal
B. Texas
C. Social
D. Corporate - ✔ANASWER✔-C
Human processes of manufacturing would be more sustainable if they
were run __________. A. on a neoclassical model
B. On the capitalist model
,3|Page
C. On a linear model
D. On a circular model - ✔ANASWER✔-D
What is the role of local self-sufficiency in building sustainable
societies?
A. It is often opposed by individuals but favored by governments and
multinational organizations like the World Trade Organization. B. It is
not a critical factor.
C. It can be valuable because people are tied more closely to the area
where they live.
D. It can be overlooked in the short term because there is nothing to
be gained from consuming locally produced goods. -
✔ANASWER✔-C
What would be more effective than taking the symptomatic approach
(addressing the symptoms) in solving environmental problems, or
problems of sustainability?
A. A population based solution, based on minimizing the population
B. A systemic solution, one that views the whole system and seeks the
root cause
, 4|Page
C. Quality of life solutions, made by changing the way we approach our
daily decisions
D. A long term solution, preventing problems from accumulating -
✔ANASWER✔-B
Most economists and policy makers focus their efforts on maintaining
economic growth for its own end; however, growth is only a means to an
end. Which of these would be a better goal to use when formulating
economic policy?
A. Technological advances
B. An increase in human happiness and not simply growth in material
wealth
C. Accumulation of material goods
D. Direct intervention of the government to work for sustainability -
✔ANASWER✔-B
What is generally true concerning family income and happiness?
A. As average income rose from 1955 to 1995, the number of very
happy people rose sharply.
