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Environmental Problems MCQ

Environmental Problems MCQ

1. Shopping at second-hand stores is an example of how we can ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Reduce waste

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2. Which of the following countries leads the world in the creation of e-waste?

Answer

Correct Answer: United States

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3. Landfills, for example, tend to be ______, or intentionally placed, in predominately low-income and non-White communities.

Answer

Correct Answer: Disproportionately sited

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4. ______ occurs when the negative consequences of production disproportionately affect people of color and low-income individuals.

Answer

Correct Answer: Environmental injustice

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5. Which of the following is a strategy to address the treadmills of livestock?

Answer

Correct Answer: Eat less meat

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6. The industrial production of animal meat has led to the wide-scale adoption of the ______ model, in which animal growth is treated like any other commodity and built with an “assembly line.”

Answer

Correct Answer: Industrial Livestock Operation

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7. In regards to climate change, it is not too late for us to ______, or slow down, the severity of climate change.

Answer

Correct Answer: Mitigate

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8. Solar panels, wind turbines, and geothermal power are examples of ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Renewable energy

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9. Making environmentally friendly choices less expensive and more convenient than other options is known as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Virtual environmentalism

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10. Discarded electronic devices are known as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: E-waste

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11. Consumers wanting to buy the latest smartphone, despite them not having any need to replace their current phone, is an example of ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Perceived obsolescence

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12. ______ refers to the business practice of designing products to retain their worth for only a short time.

Answer

Correct Answer: Planned obsolescence

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13. Buying an expensive car because it symbolizes wealth is an example of ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Conspicuous consumption

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14. ______ is the idea that people and their value are defined by the products and services they consume.

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Correct Answer: Consumerism

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15. Sociologists refer to the social processes that drive continuous production of goods as ______.

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Correct Answer: Treadmills of production

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16. Making environmentally friendly choices less expensive and more convenient than other options is called Virtual environmentalism

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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17. The pressure to produce as much and as cheaply as possible to maximize economic growth is called Treadmills of production

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Correct Answer: True

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18. Strategies for reducing carbon emissions using current technologies is called Stabilization wedges

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Correct Answer: True

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19. _________ is energy collected from sustainable or reusable sources—for example, solar panels, wind turbines, and hydroelectric dams

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Correct Answer: Renewable energy

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20. A business model for production that involves designing goods so they will not last long, forcing the later purchase of replacement goods is called

Answer

Correct Answer: Planned obsolescence

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21. Hazardous chemicals that do not easily biodegrade and remain in the ______ for a long time is called Persistent organic pollutants

Answer

Correct Answer: Environment

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22. Perceived obsolescence is the idea that still functional goods must be replaced regularly, typically produced by advertising

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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23. The practice of growing a single type of crop is called Monoculture

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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24. Slowing down or reducing the severity of something is called mitigation

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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25. Industrial livestock operation (ILO) is an approach to producing meat that maximizes output and minimizes cost; also known as factory farms

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Correct Answer: True

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26. Gases that reflect heat back to the planet’s surface when trapped in the atmosphere—for example, carbon dioxide and methane are called. Greenhouse gases

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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27. Decomposed organic matter burned to generate energy—for example, natural gas, oil, and coal is called

Answer

Correct Answer: Fossil Fuels

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28. _________ products that come from electronic materials, such as computers or cell phones is called e-waste

Answer

Correct Answer: Physical waste

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29. Disproportionate risk of environmental hazards in marginalized communities, especially low-income and non-White communities is called

Answer

Correct Answer: Environmental injustice

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30. Economies of scale is the phenomenon that a good becomes cheaper to produce as more of it is produced, resulting from production improvements and ______ demand

Answer

Correct Answer: Market

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31. When new hazardous site locations are chosen in a way that concentrates hazards in minority, poor, or otherwise disenfranchised communities is called. Disproportionately sited

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Correct Answer: True

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32. The pressure to acquire goods at an ever-increasing rate, in part to support treadmills of production is called Consumerism

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Correct Answer: True

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33. Buying new goods to display one’s wealth, status, or leisure, rather than out of necessity is known as Conspicuous consumption

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Correct Answer: True

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34. The observed increase in Earth’s average global temperature in the past _______ years, especially as caused by human activities is called climate change

Answer

Correct Answer: 150

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35. Changing or altering to better respond to one’s situation is called adaptation

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Correct Answer: True

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