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ENSC200 Exam |250 Questions Solved 100%Correct
Which one of the following attitudes was MOST characteristic of Native cultures in North
America?
a. The land should be conquered.
b. The land should be exploited as soon as possible.
c. The land and its resources are to be respected.
d. The wilderness is hostile. - ✔✔c. The land and its resources are to be respected.
Which of the following energy sources was primary during the industrial revolution?
a. labour by domesticated animals
b. solar power
c. nonrenewable sources
d. wood - ✔✔c. nonrenewable sources
Which of the following helped to limit the effects of hunter-gatherer societies on the
environment?
a. giving nature time to recuperate after people moved on
b. high use of resources
c. exponential growth of hunter-gatherer populations
d. reliance on fossil fuels as an energy source - ✔✔a. giving nature time to recuperate after
people moved on
Which of the following is a characteristic of the agricultural revolution?
a. lack of concern for the natural world
b. fertilizing to improve soil fertility
c. cultivating wild plants
,d. decreasing population size - ✔✔c. cultivating wild plants
Which of the following BEST describes shifting cultivation?
a. It alternates planting periods with fallow periods.
b. It ultimately leads to desertification.
c. It can be eliminated in stable societies.
d. It permanently depletes the soil nutrients. - ✔✔a. It alternates planting periods with
fallow periods.
Which of the following statements best represents the myth of superabundance?
a. North America's resources are inexhaustible, and the wilderness is meant to be conquered
for human use.
b. The wilderness is meant to be managed for human use.
c. Resources are vast and plentiful.
d. Bison herds are perpetually renewed. - ✔✔a. North America's resources are inexhaustible,
and the wilderness is meant to be conquered for human use.
What is the correct chronological order of the four eras of environmental history in North
America?
a. pre-Columbian; conservation; colonial settlement; environmental
b. pre-Columbian; environmental; conservation; colonial settlement
c. pre-Columbian; colonial settlement; environmental; conservation
d. pre-Columbian; colonial settlement; conservation; environmental - ✔✔d. pre-Columbian;
colonial settlement; conservation; environmental
Which of the following is a characteristic of the information and globalization revolution?
a. increased education
b. habitat destruction and degradation
,c. mass production of affordable products
d. rapid access to information on a global scale - ✔✔d. rapid access to information on a
global scale
Which of the following is a characteristic of the conservation era?
a. the formation of many citizen groups demanding environmental legislation
b. the creation of national parks and protected wilderness areas
c. unconventional artwork depicting the natural environment
d. deforestation to make way for new farms - ✔✔b. the creation of national parks and
protected wilderness areas
Which of the following statements BEST defines the second law of thermodynamics?
a. In all physical and chemical changes, energy is neither created nor destroyed.
b. When energy changes from one form to another, some of the useful energy is degraded to
lower quality, more dispersed energy.
c. In all physical and chemical changes, matter is neither created nor destroyed.
d. The total energy in the universe is constant. - ✔✔b. When energy changes from one form
to another, some of the useful energy is degraded to lower quality, more dispersed energy.
Which of the following is a measure of the concentration of H+ ions?
a. pH
b. ppm
c. litmus paper
d. ppb - ✔✔a. pH
Which of the following is the BEST example of high-quality energy?
a. household electricity
, b. firewood
c. sunlight
d. warm, tropical water - ✔✔a. household electricity
Which of the following is the BEST example of junk science?
a. a natural food store owner claiming that bleached flour causes cancer
b. a peer-reviewed paper containing evidence that bleached flour has fewer nutrients than
whole-wheat flour
c. a government report documenting the iron content of different types of flour
d. the Canada's Food Guide recommendation for daily intake of vitamin A - ✔✔a. a natural
food store owner claiming that bleached flour causes cancer
Which of the following is defined as "anything that has mass"?
a. atom
b. molecule
c. matter
d. isotope - ✔✔c. matter
Which of the following is the BEST example of a biodegradable pollutant?
a. the insecticide DDT
b. raw sewage
c. mercury-contaminated fish
d. plastic shopping bags - ✔✔b. raw sewage
Which of the following is a characteristic of a high-throughput economy?
a. reduce, reuse, and recycle
b. extensive use of renewable energy such as wind and solar power
c. high consumption of matter and energy resources
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