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Eia Mcqs
Eia Mcqs
a. never
b. hardly ever
c. often
d. always
d. EIA is a process
a. polluter pays
a. Ecological
b. Human Health
c. Social
2. Which of the elements of the EIA process does the following expression
describe?...identifying at an early stage, from all a project's possible impacts, those that are
the crucial, significant ones....
a. screening
b. scoping
c. baseline description
d. mitigation
3. Which of the elements of the EIA process does the following expression
describe?.....narrowing the application of EIA to those projects that may have significant
environmental impacts....
a. screening
b. scoping
c. baseline description
d. mitigation
4. Which of the elements of the EIA process does the following expression
describe?.....establishing the present and future states of the environment in the absence
of the project......
a. screening
b. scoping
c. baseline description
d. mitigation
5. Which of the following best describes why public involvement is necessary and
integral to EIA?
a. Without incorporating stakeholder views EIA cannot be expected to accurately record the
impact significance of the project
b. Public acceptability is important to ensure that political proponents of the project are re-elected
d. The developer who does not undertake public consultation will be able to undertake the project
more quickly
3. EIA under Directive 97/11 differs from EIA under the US NEPA in that it
a. ignore it
3. Which statement best summarises the role of negotiation within EIA public
involvement processes?
a. Allows different interest groups to resolve disputes and differences by recognising each others
viewpoints and values
b. Allows two way flow of information between the proponent and the public
a. the developer
c. Size of the project, sensitivity of the surrounding environment and effect on local communities
d. Size of the project, sensitivity of the surrounding environment, effect on local communities and
opinion of the developer
2. In some jurisdictions, project size is used as a proxy screening criteria. What is the
key problem with this approach?
b. Projects can in certain cases be split up in order that they fall below the threshold criteria
c. Projects may use different processes, technologies or design which vary their impacts
irrespective of size
d. All of the above
4. Where a preliminary EIA is carried out during screening, which of the following
should not be included?
b. Review of the degree of public concern and interest about the proposal
d. Review of the potential impacts of the proposal and their likely significance
a. If all projects were subject to EIA, costs would be higher and overall benefits of EIA relatively
lower
b. If all projects were subject to EIA, costs would be lower and overall benefits of EIA relatively
higher
c. If all projects were subject to EIA, consultants and practitioners would not be able to cope with
demand
d. If all projects were subject to EIA, wrong decisions would be made about a proportion of these
projects
a. it decides from all the possible impacts which are the potentially significant ones
c. it ensures the environmental effects of the project are all considered in detail
2. Which of the following are not required to be included in a scoping report or ToR?
c. a site visit
a. the policy and institutional frameworks under which the EIA will be conducted
5. Why does the responsibility for scoping vary from case to case?
a. the relationship between the impact and the effort needed to clean up the environment
afterwards
b. the relationship between the impact and the response of people to the environmental damage
c. the relationship between the amount of impact agent and the resultant change in the
environment
d. the relationship between the amount of impact agent and the time taken for the change in the
environment to take effect
b. we do not have complete knowledge of the way in which environmental impacts occur
c. we do not know what value future generations will ascribe to different aspects of the natural
environment
a. water quality
b. vibration
c. noise
d. particulates
a. fine dust usually measured by quantity and size in microns, such as PM10 (up to 10 microns)
b. weather data
c. topographic data
b. unwanted sound
d. intermittent peaks
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3. Which of the following criteria should not contribute to the process of establishing
impact significance?
a. because there are problems in ascribing monetary values to many environmental assets
c. because we do not know how valuable current environmental assets are to future generations
4. Which of the following general approaches to mitigation is most likely to offer the
best environmental option to mitigate for the damage to landscape caused by a proposed 5year phase of mineral working?
a. Providing screening
5. One pitfall of construction traffic route mitigation is that truck drivers may fail to
use the least-impact, approved route. How may this problem best be overcome?
a. Assume that only half of the drivers will use the approved route when carrying out impact
assessment
b. Recommend signage and temporary road narrowing blocks to ensure the route is followed
c. Require that smaller vehicles are used as this will reduce the impact
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1. Road noise is often mitigated by the construction of acoustic barriers between the
noise source and the receptor. Which of the following secondary impacts is most likely to
result?
a. Habitat loss
c. Increased accidents
a. Recommend a subway is incorporated, with steps at each side leading under the road
b. Recommend a bridge is incorporated, with ramps at each side leading over the road
a. Where a known archaeological dig site is located under the proposed project site
Please select the most appropriate response from the following questions:
1. Which of the following elements is/are least appropriate for inclusion in the EIA
Report or Environmental Statement (ES)?
a. Assessment methods
b. Scoping
2. Which of the following elements should be reported within an EIA Report/ES which
follows best practice?
a. Alternatives
b. Scoping
4. Which of the following is commonly overlooked yet important for inclusion in the
EIA Report/ES?
a. Impact assessment
b. Public consultation
c. Project description
2. Which of the following may be considered to be technical terms and therefore not
used (or at least explained adequately) in the NTS?
a. Assessment
b. Alternatives
c. dB(A)
d. kg
a. Assessment methods
b. Scoping
c. Impacts on humans
4. Which of the following elements should be reported within an NTS which follows
best practice?
c. Environmental baseline
5. Why should the NTS text not make regular references to (or quote from) the main
EIA report or Environmental Statement?