Quiz Questions: Chapter Five
1. Environmental damage inevitably threatens the welfare of human beings as well as
plants and animals. Threats to the environment come from two sources: pollution and
resource depletion.
a. True
2. The undesirable and unintended contamination of the environment by the manufacture
or use of commodities is commonly referred to as:
a. Resource depletion
b. Pollution
c. Degradation
3. _____________refers to the consumption of finite or scarce resources.
a. Resource depletion
b. Pollution
c. Degradation
4. The release of CFCs into the atmosphere may lead to several hundred thousand new
cases of skin cancer each year and destroy many valuable food crops. Also, ocean
plankton–on which the entire ocean’s food chain depends–may be severely damaged.
This is referred to as:
a. Resource depletion
b. Ozone depletion
c. Environment depletion
5. Acid rain is caused by:
a. Global warming
b. Fossil fuels
c. Airborne toxins
6. Because our environment is so complex and its parts are so interwoven, many theorists
believe that our duty to protect the environment extends beyond the welfare of humans
to other nonhuman parts of the system. This idea is called:
a. Ecological ethics or deep ecology
b. Conservation ethics
c. Survival ethics
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7. Few views of deep ecology are unusual and/or controversial.
a. True
8. The saving or rationing of natural resources for later use is referred to as:
a. Evolution
b. Ecology
c. Planned deletion
9. We cannot rely on market mechanisms to ensure adequate conservation for future
generations, however. The needs of future generations are so heavily discounted by
markets that they hardly affect prices at all.
a. True
10. The Green Valley is estimated to have enough natural gas to support the nation for an
entire year.
a. True
11. The gas field known as the Pinedale Anticline is expected to stop the energy boom.
a. True
12. The oil wells are not expected to disrupt the sensitive economic system in the Valley’s
Basin
a. True
13. Each human generates ________ of garbage each day.
a. 45 pounds
b. 14.5 pounds.
c. 4.5 pounds
14. The hole in the stratospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic expected to not recover until
sometime between the years 2060 to 2075.
a. True
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15. BHP had a tailings containment plan study prepared to deal with the OK Tedi Copper
Mine river pollution. Of the following approaches, which one was the least total likely
cost.
a. Mine and dredge.
b. Mine only.
c. Mine and dredge and store