ENVS.MLSP.16.1.1 - Summarize the three key principles of sustainability of life on this planet.
75. ____________________ is the contamination of the environment by a chemical or other agent such as noise or heat to a level that is harmful to the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms..
ANSWER:
Pollution
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.2.1 - Discuss two sources of pollution.
76. Win-____ solutions are based on compromise in light of our interdependence, and they benefit both people and the environment.
ANSWER:
win
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Understand
REFERENCES:
1.1 What Are Some Principles of Sustainability?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.1 - Summarize the three key principles of sustainability of life on this planet.
77. A single, identifiable source of pollution is called a(n) ____________________.
ANSWER:
point source
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.1 What Are Some Principles of Sustainability?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.1.3 - Differentiate among inexhaustible, renewable, and nonrenewable resources.
78. ____________________ resources exist in a fixed quantity, or stock, in the earth’s crust.
ANSWER:
Nonrenewable
Exhaustible
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.1 What Are Some Principles of Sustainability?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.1.3 - Differentiate among inexhaustible, renewable, and nonrenewable resources.
79. The average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area is the ____________________ ecological footprint.
ANSWER:
per capita
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Understand
REFERENCES:
1.2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.2.4 - Define the terms ecological footprint and ecological deficit.
80. 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.
ANSWER:
population growth
population
increased population
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.3 Why Do We Have Environmental Problems?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.3 - Specify the four major causes of environmental problems.
81. Natural capital is comprised of natural resources and ____________________.
ANSWER:
ecosystem services
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.1 What Are Some Principles of Sustainability?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.1.2 - Specify the four key components of sustainability.
82. 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.
ANSWER:
environmental worldview
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.3 Why Do We Have Environmental Problems?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.3.5 - Outline three environmental worldviews of environmental problems and solutions.
83. Pesticides blown from agricultural lands into the air is an example of ____________________ pollution.
ANSWER:
nonpoint source
non-point source
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.2.1 - Discuss two sources of pollution.
84. The ____________________ school, led by naturalist John Muir, wanted wilderness areas on some public lands to be left untouched.
ANSWER: