False
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.1 - Summarize the three key principles of sustainability of life on this planet.
10. Resource use per person is higher in the United States than it is in middle-income countries like China.
a.
True
b.
False
ANSWER:
True
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom's: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.2.5 - Given the population size, affluence, and technology, determine the environmental impact of human activities by using the IPAT model.
11. In order for the social changes to occur that will produce sustainable economies, fully 50% of the population of a country must support the change.
a.
True
b.
False
ANSWER:
False
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.4 What Is an Environmentally Stable Society?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.4 - Specify the means of achieving an environmentally sustainable society.
12. Biodiversity is defined as the variety of genes, organisms, species, and ecosystems in which organisms exist and interact, and plays an important role in the long-term sustainability of life on Earth.
a.
True
b.
False
ANSWER:
True
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
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.
13. Inexhaustible resources exist in a fixed quantity, or stock, in the earth’s crust.
a.
True
b.
False
ANSWER:
False
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.
14. One social science principle of sustainability is that we should leave the planet’s life-support systems in at least as good a condition as that which we now enjoy, if not better, for future generations.
a.
True
b.
False
ANSWER:
True
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.
15. The tragedy of the commons is a phenomenon that occurs only when the number of users of a resource is small.
a.
True
b.
False
ANSWER:
False
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom’s: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.1 - Summarize the three key principles of sustainability of life on this planet.
16. Natural capital degradation is a consequence of living unsustainably.
a.
True
b.
False
ANSWER:
True
DIFFICULTY:
Bloom's: Remember
REFERENCES:
1.2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
ENVS.MLSP.16.1.1 - Summarize the three key principles of sustainability of life on this planet.
17. Indirect forms of solar energy, such as wind and flowing water, provide us with inexhaustible power that we can use to produce electricity.
a.
True
b.
False
ANSWER:
True
DIFFICULTY: