Land Use Law Test
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Course Introduction
Land Use Law explores the legal frameworks and principles governing the use and development of land, with a focus on the balance between private property rights and public regulatory interests. The course examines zoning, planning, subdivision controls, environmental regulations, and constitutional limitations such as takings and due process. Students learn about the roles of local, state, and federal governments in shaping land use policies, as well as the legal tools used to manage issues like urban growth, housing, transportation, and environmental protection. Through case studies and legal analysis, the course prepares students to understand and navigate the complex intersections of law, policy, and land development.
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Environmental Law 8th Edition by Nancy K. Kubasek
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Chapter 1: The American Legal System: the Source of Environmental Law
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Q1) Criminal law
A) is statutory law.
B) places the burden of proof on the prosecutor.
C) both a and b.
D) none of the above.
Answer: C
Q2) The burden of proof in a civil case is a preponderance of evidence, whereas the burden of proof in a criminal case is beyond a reasonable doubt.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The president makes law by signing treaties.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) If you were looking for a federal statute, you would look in the Federal Reporter.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Litigation Process and Other Tools for Resolving Environmental Disputes
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Q1) The purpose of serving the summons and complaint is to
A) give the defendant notice of the pending action against her.
B) give the court jurisdiction over the defendant.
C) give the court subject matter jurisdiction over the case.
D) both a and b.
Answer: D
Q2) Grand juries
A) are used in only criminal cases.
B) are used in only civil cases.
C) are used to decide the facts in a case.
D) both a and c.
Answer: A
Q3) The voir dire process
A) is supposed to ensure that jurors are not biased.
B) allows for removal of potential jurors through both peremptory and for cause challenges.
C) both a and b.
D) none of the above.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Administrative Law and Its Impact on the Environment
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Q1) Administrative agencies are controlled by
A) Congress' ability to give them their powers through enacting their enabling statutes.
B) Congress' exercise of its oversight authority.
C) both a and b.
D) none of the above.
Answer: C
Q2) One does not look in the Federal Register to find
A) proposed rules.
B) final rules.
C) statutes.
D) any of the above.
Answer: C
Q3) Activities of administrative agencies include rulemaking, adjudication, providing information to the public, granting licenses, and conducting research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy
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Q1) The "Tragedy of the Commons" is frequently cited to justify the use of the tort law to prevent pollution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The EIS requirement is frequently criticized by environmentalists as being too weak; the only remedy available under the Act when an EIS is inadequate is to have the EIS rewritten.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not contained in the EIS?
A) a statement of any adverse negative environment impacts that cannot be avoided if the proposal is carried out.
B) alternatives to the proposal, including taking no action.
C) both a and b.
D) none of the above.
Q4) Nuisance actions would be the ideal means for controlling pollution if most nuisances were private rather than public nuisances.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Air-Quality Control
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Q1) The United States is home for only four percent of the population of the Earth, yet it is responsible for 20 percent of all greenhouse gases
A)True
B)False
Q2) Reformulated gasoline
A) is a type of gasoline that produces no pollution.
B) is a problem-free way to reduce pollution.
C) is used in smoggy areas to reduce pollutant emissions.
D) uses only the oxygenate MTBE to make fuels cleaner.
Q3) Which was not an early act regulating air quality?
A) Air Pollution Control Act of 1955.
B) Motor Vehicle Control Act of 1960.
C) Clean Air Act of 1963.
D) none of the above.
Q4) One of the reasons for the ineffectiveness of early air pollution control legislation was that these laws imposed such strict standards on the states that the states rebelled and did not even attempt to meet these standards.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Water-Quality Control
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Q1) Under appropriative rights, the right to use the water is established by actual consumptive use of the water.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When states are designating streams and lakes for uses, the waterways that must become the cleanest are those designated for
A) recreational use.
B) public water supply.
C) agricultural use.
D) industrial use.
Q3) The Safe Drinking Water Act establishes drinking water standards that are applicable to
A) bottled water.
B) municipal water supply systems.
C) private wells.
D) all of the above.
Q4) The primary source of pollution of streams today is industrial sources.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Controlling Toxic Substances
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Q1) The most commonly used data to support regulation of a toxic substance is the epidemiological study.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act,
A) pesticides not registered by the EPA cannot be sold in the United States.
B) a pesticide which may cause harm to humans when inhaled may be registered as a restricted use pesticide, but its use may be limited to certified applicators.
C) unregistered pesticides may not be manufactured in the United States.
D) both a and b.
Q3) The Rotterdam Convention (the PIC) requires that parties to the Convention must
A) stop their usage of all banned hazardous substances.
B) provide export notification to importing countries when a chemical is banned in the exporting country.
C) cease exporting banned pesticides to developing nations.
D) both a and c.
Q4) The strongest evidence of carcinogenicity comes from epidemiological studies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Waste Management and Hazardous Releases
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Q1) Which of the following is not a requirement for a hazardous waste landfill?
A) a double liner along the bottom and sides
B) a leachate collection system above and between the liners
C) a comprehensive groundwater monitoring system
D) all of the above
Q2) Initially, tax revenues from petroleum and chemical industries helped to fund the Superfund, but the tax has now expired, and it is now funded through general tax dollars.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following groups need not be represented on local emergency response planning committees?
A) law enforcement
B) broadcast and print media
C) firefighters
D) none of the above
Q4) For either remedial or removal actions, a site must be listed on the NPL, but it need not be first on the list.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Energy
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Q1) Energy efficient mortgages are an important policy of the EPAct.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following was not an objective of Carter's National Energy Plan?
A) increasing federal spending for research and development of new technology for energy conservation and productivity.
B) centralize federal energy planning through institutional reform.
C) achieve greater energy efficiency through selective use of market forces and a major expansion of federal regulatory policy.
D) none of the above.
Q3) Solar energy is captured through A) steam
B) photovoltaic cells
C) thermal conductors
D) all of the above
Q4) Because nuclear energy does not produce carbon emissions, it is considered a renewable source of energy
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Natural Resources
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Q1) When a land is designated wilderness,
A) the agency administering the land must preserve its "wilderness character."
B) the area must be devoted to the public purposes of recreational, scenic, scientific, educational, or historical use.
C) both a and b.
D) none of the above.
Q2) The early attitude of government regulators toward public lands was to "sell and develop" them.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is one reason that more wilderness has been protected in the West rather than in the East?
A) Protests by landowners in the East led to more protection in the West.
B) Land in the West is generally more beautiful and more worthy of protection than land in the East.
C) Congressional representatives from the West are more environmentally attuned.
D) The high population of the East leaves few large tracts of land.
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Chapter 11: International Environmental Law
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the basic international environmental law principles?
A) the principle of due diligence.
B) the principle of international autonomy.
C) the principle of good neighborliness.
D) the principle of equitable utilization of shared resources.
Q2) Which is not a problem associated with overpopulation?
A) mass starvation when agricultural growth cannot keep pace with population growth.
B) increased pollution.
C) both a and b.
D) none of the above.
Q3) Environmentalists support increased trade because with an increase in trade comes higher environmental standards worldwide.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A major problem with international environmental law is its lack of an adequate enforcement mechanism.
A)True
B)False
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