The Environment And You 3rd Edition By Christensen
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TEST BANK for The Environment and You 3rd Edition by Christensen Norm, Leege Lissa & St. Juliana. ISBN 9780134838663, ISBN-13: 9780135213087 _TABLE OF CONTENTS_ Chapter 1 Environment, Sustainabilit y, and Science Chapter 2 Environmental Ethics, Economics, and Policy Chapter 3 The Physical Science o...
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,Chapter 1 Environment, Sustainability, and Science
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) The law of energy and mass conservation states that . 1)
A) energy can be created and matter destroyed
B) both energy and matter can be created and destroyed
C) energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed
D) energy cannot be destroyed but matter can be created
2) Environmental science is best described as . 2)
A) focusing on renewable resource sustainability
B) studying ecosystem sustainability and destruction
C) focusing on organism relationships within an ecosystem
D) studying all aspects of an environment
E) studying the physical and chemical aspects of an environment
3) The 1987 UN Commission on Sustainability first introduced the concept of _ _ as a necessary 3)
focus for maintaining sustainability.
A) human well-being
B) human population growth
C) cultural services
D) environmental sustainability
E) renewable energy
4) What is one barrier that makes it difficult for scientists to forecast environmental changes? 4)
A) environmental conflict that leads to ecosystem sustainability
B) the certainties of ecosystem function that humans ignore
C) the diversity of views based on cultural and religious differences
D) unpredictable behavior of ecosystems that cause unpredicted environmental changes
E) simplicity of ecosystems
5) Resources are . 5)
A) infinite
B) finite
C) available in sufficient quantities to sustain all of our futures
D) available in ample quantities
E) used at a slow rate so that they will last forever
6) Which of the following is not an abiotic factor? 6)
A) sunlight
B) temperature
C) carbon and nitrogen levels
D) bacteria
E) rainfall
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, 7) Throughout any introductory examination of ecosystems and environmental sustainability, the 7)
importance of human population numbers is cited. Currently, the world and U.S. populations are
closest to _.
A) 9 billion; 400 million
B) 7 billion; 500 million
C) 7 billion; 300 million
D) 7 billion; 200 million
E) 3.5 billion; 300 million
8) The current total world population has just passed . 8)
A) 6 billion B) 7 billion C) 9 billion D) 5 billion E) 8 billion
Read the scenario and answer the accompanying question(s).
Sustainable management requires us to examine the "big picture" of an ecosystem's context, even though we may not
understand every piece and process in that ecosystem. Systems thinking recognizes and addresses the essential connections
between the pieces of any system to be analyzed.
9) Which of the following environmental examples represents systems thinking? 9)
A) emission control devices on California automobiles
B) studying the behavior of a global invasive species
C) planting grass for cattle to feed on in desert regions
D) undertaking a long-term study of Lake Michigan ecology
E) examining the beetle life cycle that is posing a threat to local forests
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, 10) What is the end product of the scientific method for a particular question? 10)
A) scientific observations
B) hypothesis construction
C) drawing conclusions
D) peer review and publication
E) hypothesis testing
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