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12thgrade
EnvSci 1:3 What causes Env Problems, and why do they Persist
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Exponential growth occurs when a quantity, such as global human population, changes at a fixed percentage per unit of time, such as a 0.5% or 2% increase per year over the previous year.
True
False
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is one environmental benefit of affluence?
Increasing affluence allows for an increased capacity for resource consumption.
Increasing affluence provides resources to apply toward the creation of environmentally beneficial technologies.
Increasing affluence often leads to a desire to travel widely and frequently in order to see the world.
Increasing affluence in more-developed nations leads to increased affluence in less-developed countries.
Increasing affluence encourages consumers to spend more money on locally manufactured products.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Many economists propose including the harmful environmental and health costs of producing and using goods and services in their market prices. What is this adjusted market price called?
ecological deficit
natural income
subsidy
full-cost pricing
ax exemption
- 4. Multiple Choice
About 900 million people live in extreme poverty, struggling to live on the equivalent of less than ____ a day.
$1.90
$3.25
$5.15
$7.50
$10.00
- 5. Multiple Choice
According to the ____, all species have value as participating members of the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to humans.
human-centered environmental worldview
Earth-centered environmental worldview
life-centered environmental worldview
stewardship environmental worldview
planetary management environmental worldview
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT an example of natural capital degradation?
soil erosion
climate change
water pollution
reduced wildlife habitat
exponential population growth
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which factor is a major contributor to the degradation of natural capital associated with the pricing of consumable goods?
Consumable goods are priced in such a way that they do not reflect the environmental damage caused by their production.
Consumable goods are priced in such a way as to allow even poor people in less-developed nations to acquire them.
Consumable goods are priced in such a way as to offset harmful environmental and health costs.
Consumers are typically aware of the kinds of environmental damage resulting from the production of the item.
Consumers in some local cultures purchase items that are expensive because of the social status it brings.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Your ____________________ is your set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be.
ecological mindset
point-of-view
environmental worldview
mathematical worldview
- 9. Multiple Choice
Major causes of the environmental problems we face are ____________________, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, failure to include the harmful environmental and health costs of goods and services in their market prices, and increasing isolation from nature.
uncaring people
increased human population
fake news
big business and politicians
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of these can Eco-Tourism NOT help?
protection of habitats
promote economic development of local economies
reduce fuel consumption
treat nature-deficit disorder
- 11. Multiple Choice
What has happened to the human population in the last 1,000 years?
we have reduced environmental degradation
we have experienced exponential growth
we have established full cost pricing
we have controlled climate change
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of these is NOT one of 5 major reasons environmental problems persist?
Population growth
Unsustainable resource use
differences in environmental worldviews
Lack of full-cost pricing for goods/services
poverty
- 13. Multiple Choice
How does one's environmental worldview affect ones attitude toward living sustainably? Choose the INCORRECT option.
A human-centered worldview sees the natural world as a support system for human life.
According to the life-centered worldview, all species have value in fulfilling their particular role within the biosphere
An animal-centered worldview holds that the animals will inherit the Earth after humans have destroyed themselves with resource depletion, pollution, and environmental degradation
The Earth-centered worldview maintains that people are part of, and dependent on, nature. It maintains that Earth’s natural capital exists for all species, not just for humans
- 14. Multiple Choice
What are some of positive environmental impacts of affluence? Choose the INCORRECT option
widespread and better education, which can lead people to become more concerned about environmental quality
it enables consumers to obtain resources from almost anywhere in the world without seeing the harmful effects of their high-consumption lifestyles
makes more money available for developing technologies to reduce pollution, environmental degradation, and waste
provides other ways for humans to increase their beneficial environmental impacts
- 15. Multiple Choice
Poverty can have Harmful Environmental and Health Effects. Choose the INCORRECT Option
Malnutrition and starvation
Short-term requirements for survival can lead to degraded forests, topsoil, grasslands, fisheries, wildlife populations
limited access to sanitation/clean drinking water
increased incidents of genetic disorders
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