Test Bank For
Environmental Science
A Global Concern 16 th
Edi�on By William
Cunningham, Mary
Cunningham (All
Chapters 100% Original
Verified A+ Grade)
,Chapter 1
Student name:__________
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The text suggests there is not a strong connection between poverty and environmental
degradation.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Most people agree that global climate change is not a real environmental threat.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Loss of indigenous cultures is accompanied by loss of unique understanding of nature.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) An important reason for determining the size of a society's ecological footprint is to
determine the sustainability of its lifestyle.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) 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
CHECK ALL THE APPLY. Choose all options that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
6) The United Nations estimates that 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger. Which of
the following are leading causes for this? (Check all that apply.)
A) violent conflict
B) unequal access to resources
C) climate change
D) not enough food produced to feed everyone
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7) Which of the following would be a correct description of sustainability? (Select all that
apply.)
A) Sustainability requires using renewable resources at a rate that isn’t faster than its
ability to regenerate.
B) Sustainability requires understanding how much pollution or waste the environment
can safely absorb and to not exceed that.
C) To be sustainable, renewable substitutes for nonrenewable resources should be
developed.
D) Sustainability requires never using nonrenewable resources as they will run out
E) Sustainable use of resources means using equal amounts of renewable and
nonrenewable resources.
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
8) 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.
9) 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
10) 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
11) 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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12) 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.
13) 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
14) 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.
15) ________ 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
16) 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.
17) The first Nobel Prize for environmental action was awarded
A) in 1912 to John Muir.
B) in 1973 to David Brower.
C) in 2004 to Wangari Maathai.
D) in 1935 to Aldo Leopold.
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Environmental Science
A Global Concern 16 th
Edi�on By William
Cunningham, Mary
Cunningham (All
Chapters 100% Original
Verified A+ Grade)
,Chapter 1
Student name:__________
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The text suggests there is not a strong connection between poverty and environmental
degradation.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Most people agree that global climate change is not a real environmental threat.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Loss of indigenous cultures is accompanied by loss of unique understanding of nature.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) An important reason for determining the size of a society's ecological footprint is to
determine the sustainability of its lifestyle.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) 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
CHECK ALL THE APPLY. Choose all options that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
6) The United Nations estimates that 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger. Which of
the following are leading causes for this? (Check all that apply.)
A) violent conflict
B) unequal access to resources
C) climate change
D) not enough food produced to feed everyone
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,Chapter 1
7) Which of the following would be a correct description of sustainability? (Select all that
apply.)
A) Sustainability requires using renewable resources at a rate that isn’t faster than its
ability to regenerate.
B) Sustainability requires understanding how much pollution or waste the environment
can safely absorb and to not exceed that.
C) To be sustainable, renewable substitutes for nonrenewable resources should be
developed.
D) Sustainability requires never using nonrenewable resources as they will run out
E) Sustainable use of resources means using equal amounts of renewable and
nonrenewable resources.
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
8) 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.
9) 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
10) 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
11) 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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, Chapter 1
12) 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.
13) 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
14) 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.
15) ________ 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
16) 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.
17) The first Nobel Prize for environmental action was awarded
A) in 1912 to John Muir.
B) in 1973 to David Brower.
C) in 2004 to Wangari Maathai.
D) in 1935 to Aldo Leopold.
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