Topic 1 Test

1. What is an ecological foot print? 5. Which of the following does NOT directly
______________________________________ influence your ecological footprint?
______________________________________
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a) Forest land to absorb carbon dioxide
2. Which of the following, best describes the produced
result of negative feedback on a system?
b) Grazing land to raise meat
a) The system moves away from c) Amount of land needed to absorb and
equilibrium. store rain water.
b) The system moves towards equilibrium. d) Crop land needed to grow food and fibres
used by humans
c) The system becomes unstable.
d) The system does not change.
3 6. An example of a transformation process of
3. An Environmental Value System (EVS) is a only matter is
worldview that shapes the way an individual, or
group of people, perceives and evaluates a) sunlight converted to heat
environmental issues, influenced by b) A deer digesting grass

a) religious contexts c) ice melting into water

b) economic contexts d) burning wood releasing heat
c) cultural contexts
d) all of these
7. Which of the following can be considered an
isolated system?
4. A lake with a stream flowing into it, but water
lost only by evaporation is an example of
a) A small island
b) A spider on a tree
a) an open system
c) The entire cosmos
b) an integrated system
d) A rock in the bottom of the ocean
c) a closed system
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d) an isolated system
8. When did the agricultural revolution occur?
a) Mid 1700s
b) mid 20th century
c) middle ages
d) late 19th century
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9. What is the best definition for Sustainability? a) Positive feedback
b) Entropy
a) Living within the means of nature, on the
‘interest’ or sustainable natural income generated c) Negative feedback
by natural capital. d) First law of thermodynamics
b) Management and use of resources that
12. Lichen grow on trees are an indicator species
allows full natural replacement of the resources
exploited and full recovery of the of air quality in a forest near an airport.
ecosystems affected. a) This is a indirect measurement of point
source pollutant
c) Development that meets the needs of the b) This is a direct measurement of non-point
present without compromising the ability of source pollutant
future generations to meet their own needs.
d) All of these c) This is a indirect measurement of non-
point source pollutant
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d) This is a direct measurement of point
10. DDT, mercury and lead are examples of source pollutant

a) primary non-biodegradable pollutants 13. Which of the following lists only includes
b) secondary biodegradable pollutants examples of natural capital?
a) Lumber, fish and energy from wind
c) primary biodegradable pollutants
b) Trees, fish and sunshine
d) secondary non-biodegradable pollutants
12 c) Forests preventing erosion, employment
due to fishing and electricity from solar panels
11. Rachel Carson is famous for:
d) Trees, fishing and mining coal
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a) starting the modern environmental
14. What did the industrial revolution not cause?
movement
b) helping scientists study and understand a) human population growth
biomagnification of toxins in food webs
b) clean air
c) making the public aware of the dangers of
c) build up of carbon dioxide in the
using DDT as a pesticide in her book 'Silent
atmosphere
Spring'.
d) epidemics of cholera and typhoid
d) All of these
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15. Which of the following is an example of
11. As a rabbit population on a small island natural income?
increases, a disease is able to spread faster
because the animals are in close contact with each a) Groundwater stored in an aquifer
other. As more rabbits die, the population density b) Rice harvested from a field
falls reducing contact between rabbits. Eventually
c) Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere
the rabbit population is low enough that the
disease dies out with the last infected rabbit. The d) Trees growing in a forest
disease is an example of 18
16. Choose the statement that best describes the 19. Describe an example of a possitive feedback.
first law of thermodynamics.

a) Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

b) Energy can only be transfered within
systems.
c) An increase in entropy arising from
energy transformations reduces the energy
available to do work
d) Entropy of a system increases over time.

17. Fill in the missing parts in the following text:

/Use some of the words: destabilising, 20. Draw one of the following as a system: A
equilibrium, stabilising, feedback, surpassed/ burning candle, a boiling kettle, a plant, an animal
population. Label inputs, outputs, and flows.
A tipping point may be defined as the point at
which a new ___________ may be created as
____________ mechanisms are ___________
18. Which disaster encouraged Germany and
other nations to stop generating electricity with
nuclear energy?

a) The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in

the Gulf of Mexico.
b) The 1984 Bhopal disaster in India
c) The 2011 Fukushima Daiihi disaster in
Japan
d) The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Russia