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Test Bank for Environmental Science: A Global Concern, 16th Edition 16e by William Cunningham and Mary Cunningham. ISBN-13: 7842 Full Chapters test banks are included 1 Understanding Our Environment 2 Principles of Science and Systems 3 Matter, Energy, and Life 4 Evolution, Biological C...

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Chap 01 16e
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



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.




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