Environmental Policy and Management
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Environmental Policy and Management explores the principles, processes, and tools involved in the development and implementation of policies aimed at protecting the environment. The course examines the roles of government agencies, private sector actors, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations in shaping environmental policy at local, national, and global levels. Topics include regulatory frameworks, policy analysis, environmental ethics, stakeholder engagement, and strategies for sustainable management of natural resources. Through case studies and practical applications, students gain insights into contemporary challenges such as climate change, pollution control, and sustainable development, equipping them with the skills to analyze, evaluate, and influence environmental policy decisions.
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Principles of Environmental Science Inquiry and Applications 7th Edition by William P Cunningham
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Chapter 1: Understanding Our Environment
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Q1) Of the following statements and questions, which is the best example of deductive reasoning?
A) If all insects have six legs, then butterflies have six legs.
B) In repeated tosses of a coin, there is a 50/50 chance of each toss resulting in a "head."
C) How many times will the toss of coins turn "heads-up" if 100 people each toss a coin?
D) Since every insect I have examined so far has six legs, I conclude that all insects must have six legs.
E) All of these are examples of deductive reasoning.
Answer: A
Q2) On Apo Island, a history of destructive fishing habits had the affect of
A) Reducing the food chain.
B) Eliminating biodiversity.
C) Impoverishing the local economy.
D) Overexploiting available resources.
E) Impoverishing the local economy by overexploiting available resources.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Environmental Systems: Matter and Energy of Life
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Q1) The motion of a rock rolling downhill is known as __________ energy.
A) kinetic
B) latent
C) potential
D) electrical
E) mechanical
Answer: A
Q2) Potential energy is _______ energy.
A) electrical
B) motion
C) stored
D) heat
E) latent
Answer: C
Q3) Nitrogen is an essential component of amino acids and proteins.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Evolution, Species Interactions, and Biological Communities
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Q1) An especially effective strategy for reducing intraspecific competition is
A) different ecological niches for juveniles and adults.
B) rapid reproduction.
C) eating prey before they are "ready" (ripe) for other species.
D) resource partitioning.
E) None of these since the examples given are for reducing interspecific competition.
Answer: A
Q2) ___________ is the place or set of environmental conditions in which a particular organism lives.
A) Adaptation
B) Habitat
C) Tolerance range
D) Resource partition
E) Niche
Answer: B
Q3) In general species diversity is higher near the poles than near the equator.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Human Populations
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Q1) Generally speaking wealthy, developed nations have a smaller human ecological footprint than poorer, less developed nations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the formula I=PAT, which of the following would be representative of the 'A'?
A) Driving an SUV.
B) Earning money to support the family.
C) Having clean drinking water.
D) The number of people living in a country.
Q3) The number of children born to an average woman in a population during her entire reproductive life is called _____________________.
A) birth rate
B) growth rate
C) crude birth rate
D) total fertility rate
E) replacement rate
Q4) Human population growth most closely resembles the S-shaped growth curve.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Biomes and Biodiversity
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Q1) Humid tropical forests have extraordinary biological diversity
A) because of the very fertile tropical soils.
B) because rainfall dissolves soil nutrients and makes them available to plants.
C) because water is not a limiting factor.
D) despite a complete absence of nutrients in the environment.
E) despite the poor, weathered soils.
Q2) The base of the marine food web is
A) phytoplankton.
B) sharks.
C) sea stars.
D) coral reef organisms.
Q3) What biome is characterized by moderate temperatures and abundant precipitation?
A) chaparral
B) tropical rainforest
C) temperate rainforest
D) taiga
E) No biome has moderate temperatures and abundant precipitation.
Q4) Estuaries contain a mix of fresh and salt water.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Environmental Conservation: Forests,
Grasslands, Parks, and Nature
Preserves
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Q1) In general, the global range of world deserts are
A) decreasing as world climate becomes wetter.
B) increasing because of the increase in global carbon dioxide.
C) increasing because of logging and grazing.
D) decreasing because of massive reforestation.
E) about the same in area but have many threatened species of plants.
Q2) The highest rate of forest loss occurs in
A) Asia.
B) North America.
C) South America.
D) Africa.
E) Europe.
Q3) The IUCN world conservation strategy is directed at protecting A) resources from human use.
B) endangered species.
C) wildlife from poaching.
D) world climate stability.
E) ecosystems and biodiversity.
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Chapter 7: Food and Agriculture
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Q1) Waterlogging results from
A) toxic metal accumulation.
B) excessive irrigation.
C) excessive plowing.
D) high evaporation processes.
E) natural water erosion processes.
Q2) The USDA estimates ______ percent of conventionally grown foods are contaminated with pesticide residue.
A) 11
B) 23
C) 34
D) 58
E) 73
Q3) Soil organisms usually stay __________ the soil.
A) deep below the surface of
B) near the middle of C) close to the surface of
D) spread uniformly throughout
E) About half stay close to the surface and the other half stay deep below the surface of the soil.
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Chapter 8: Environmental Health and Toxicology
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Q1) Historically, the greatest threats to human health came from
A) carcinogenic or toxic chemicals.
B) psychological stress factors due to crowding.
C) pathogenic organisms.
D) teratogenic chemicals.
E) injuries (intentional and unintentional).
Q2) Which would not be characteristic of a disease such as the recent outbreak of cholera and Ebola.
A) They are caused by pathogenic organisms.
B) They are called communicable diseases.
C) They are called emergent diseases.
D) They are happening more often in the past 20 years.
E) They are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
Q3) A chemical that causes abnormalities in a growing fetus is called a(n)
A) teratogen.
B) mutagen.
C) carcinogen.
D) endocrine disruptor.
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Chapter 9: Climate
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Q1) The atmospheric zone where most weather events occur is the A) stratosphere.
B) thermosphere.
C) troposphere.
D) mesosphere.
E) stratopause.
Q2) Nineteen of the 20 warmest of the last 150 years have occurred since 1980.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When cool, dry air sinks from the upper atmosphere toward the Earth's surface, it is A) compressed and cooled further.
B) allowed to expand and become warmer.
C) compressed and becomes warmer.
D) forced to release any remaining moisture.
E) going to hold more water because there is more water vapor closer to the Earth's surface.
Q4) There has been an increase in frequency and intensity of storms and hurricanes. A)True B)False
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Chapter 10: Air Pollution
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Q1) There are serious signs that ozone depletion may lead to
A) UV-caused skin cancers.
B) UV-caused blindness.
C) IR-caused sunburn.
D) UV-caused skin cancers and UV-caused blindness only.
Q2) The most common human health response to air pollution is
A) inflammatory responses in sensitive tissues.
B) lung cancer.
C) blindness caused by deteriorating eye tissues.
D) skin cancer.
E) heart disease.
Q3) The air pollutant least successfully removed from the air by technologies in developed nations is
A) carbon dioxide.
B) sulfur oxides.
C) nitrogen oxides.
D) particulate matter.
E) VOCs.
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Chapter 11: Water: Resources and Pollution
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Q1) The place where aquifers are most likely to be contaminated is at A) artesian springs.
B) seeps and other outlets.
C) recharge zones.
D) all discharge and recharge areas.
E) the zone of aeration.
Q2) The hydrologic compartment that contains the greatest amount of fresh water is A) groundwater.
B) the Great Lakes.
C) living organisms and biomass.
D) ice and snow.
E) clouds in the atmosphere.
Q3) The main reason that surface water pollution has largely decreased in the United States since 1950 is
A) the Clean Water Act.
B) a series of epidemics that inspired action.
C) the discovery of newer technology that makes it cheaper not to pollute.
D) decreases in water withdrawal for industrial uses.
E) the emphasis in 1950 of watershed management.
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Chapter 12: Environmental Geology and Earth Resources
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Q1) The physical breakdown of a rock into smaller pieces is called A) the rock cycle.
B) sedimentation.
C) chemical weathering.
D) mechanical weathering.
E) abrasion.
Q2) The eruption of a volcano can cause global climate changes by causing stratospheric ozone reduction, allowing increased ultraviolet light to reach the Earth's surface.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The need for extraction of raw metals for making steel has been reduced due to the A) increase in the number of smelters.
B) increase in minimills.
C) decrease in demand for steel.
D) decrease in amount of ore used to produce high quality steel.
E) increase in legislation and regulation for the extraction of raw materials.
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Chapter 13: Energy
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Q1) Transportation consumes about ______ percent of all energy used in the US each year.
A) 13
B) 20
C) 27
D) 33
E) 39
Q2) A geyser is an example of geothermal energy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements is false?
A) Improving standards of living have been repeatedly demonstrated to require increased energy consumption.
B) An average house built today requires only half the energy used by a new home in 1974.
C) For an average home, standby appliances consume up to 25% of the electricity used in a month.
D) Most potential heat from fuel is lost as waste heat.
E) All of these are true.
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Chapter 14: Solid and Hazardous Waste
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Q1) Using a refillable beverage container (returnable bottles) would be an example of __________ materials.
A) reusing
B) recycling
C) reducing
D) redefining
E) None of these are correct.
Q2) Illegal dumping and storage of hazardous waste
A) continues to threaten public health.
B) has completely stopped since the Superfund Act.
C) has not stopped completely but is rare.
D) has become a problem mainly since the Superfund Act.
E) will always be present because people are not concerned about toxic wastes.
Q3) A single PVC bottle in a truckload of PET plastic could make the PET useless for recycling.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Secure landfills are usually sealed with gravel.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Economics and Urbanization
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Q1) International trade of goods internalizes costs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An open access system will lead to
A) smart growth.
B) sustainable development.
C) tragedy of the commons.
D) urban sprawl.
Q3) The dilemma of public property use presented by Garret Hardin is also called the "free rider problem."
A)True
B)False
Q4) In 2000 what continent had the highest percentage of people living in urban areas?
A) North America
B) Europe
C) Asia
D) South America
E) Africa
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Chapter 16: Environmental Policy and Sustainability
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Q1) A primary goal of sustainable development is the reduction of the world's population by at least 30%.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which group below is most identified with direct action for environmental causes?
A) the Audubon Society
B) The Nature Conservancy
C) the Wise Use Movement
D) the Natural Resources Defense Council
E) Earth First!
Q3) Which of the environmental laws and treaties listed below is responsible for protection of endangered species?
A) Clean Water Act.
B) Marine Mammal Act.
C) CITES.
D) Pitman Robertson Act.
E) Kyoto Protocol.
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