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Natural Resource Management Exam Practice Tests

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Natural Resource Management explores the principles, strategies, and tools used to sustainably manage natural resources such as water, soil, forests, minerals, and biodiversity. This course examines the intricate relationships between human societies and the natural environment, highlighting the social, economic, and ecological dimensions of resource use. Students will analyze case studies on resource management challenges, evaluate policy and regulatory frameworks, and learn methods for assessing and mitigating environmental impacts. The course encourages the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills necessary for balancing resource conservation with the needs of growing populations and economic development.

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Environmental Science 14th Edition by

G. Tyler Miller

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Chapter 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

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Q1) Billions of poverty-stricken people do not have access to basic necessities of life. The lack of which one of the following basic necessities affects the largest number of people?

A) enough fuel for heating and cooking

B) adequate sanitation facilities

C) clean drinking water

D) adequate housing

E) enough food for good health

Answer: B

Q2) Nonrenewable resources include

A) Oil

B) Minerals

C) salt and sand

D) Coal

E) oil, minerals, salt, sand and coal

Answer: E

Q3) Natural capital is comprised of natural resources and natural ____________________.

Answer: services

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Chapter 2: Science, Matter, and Energy

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Q1) Atoms with variable numbers of neutrons

A)S

B)H+

C)Electron

D)Proton

E)Neutron

F)CO₂

G)Na

H)nucleus

I)mass number

J)NO³-

K)isotopes

Answer: K

Q2) Some forms of electromagnetic radiation with short wavelengths are:

A) Visible light and IR radiation

B) Visible light and x-rays

C) x-rays and IR

D) gamma rays and UV radiation

E) Visible light and gamma rays

Answer: D

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Chapter 3: Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They

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Q1) The innermost layer of the atmosphere is the

A) Troposphere

B) Stratosphere

C) Hydrosphere

D) Geosphere

E) Lithosphere

Answer: A

Q2) A ____________________ is similar to a food chain, but is much more complex and shows many interconnected feeding relationships.

Answer: Food web

Q3) A grizzly bear eating blueberries is best categorized as which of the following?

A) Producer

B) primary consumer

C) tertiary consumer

D) Detritivore

E) Decomposer

Answer: B

Q4) On the figure of the Earth, choose the letter that represents UV radiation.

Answer: B

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Chapter 4: Biodiversity and Evolution

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Q1) An intertidal species of seastar helps to maintain the diversity of the intertidal region by controlling the mussel population. Without the seastar, the mussel population would crowd out other species and take over their territory. The seastar could be called a(n)

A) indicator species

B) keystone species

C) foundation species

D) aggressive species

E) repressor species

Q2) Genes mutate, ____________________ are selected, and populations____________________.

Q3) Species whose roles have a large effect on the types and abundance of other species in an ecosystem are called ___________ _____________.

Q4) A practice that involves cutting off fins of a shark and then returning the shark to the ocean without the fins they need to survive is called ____________________.

Q5) Genes mutate, individuals are selected and populations evolve.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 5: Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control

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Q1) Parasitism occurs when one species feeds on another organism.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Which of the following is accurate with regards to the balance of nature hypothesis?

A) It is currently viewed as the most accurate description of how ecological succession can arise at a climax community.

B) It is the historically held equilibrium model of succession in which, once achieved, a climax community will be dominated by a few long-lived plant species.

C) It suggests that there are always an appropriate number and diversity of producers to allow an ever-increasing number of primary consumers to inhabit a changing community.

D) It suggests that the pathway of ecological succession is not predictable.

E) It is an example of something that scientists were able to disprove conclusively.

Q3) As indicated in this image, when different species of warblers inhabit the same area, is food competition reduced?

Q4) Clearly explain the current view of succession in ecosystems.

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Chapter 6: The Human Population and Urbanization

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Q1) Advantages of Mass Transit Rail systems include which of the following?

A) Causes fewer injuries and deaths than cars.

B) Inexpensive to build.

C) Produces less air pollution than cars.

D) All of these answers are correct.

E) Two of these answers choices are correct

Q2) Which of the following statements about Vauban, a suburb of Freiberg, Germany,is false?

A) A small minority of homeowner own cars

B) Street parking is forbidden.

C) Each home is within walking distance of trains going to and from surrounding areas.

D) Most homes are single family homes.

E) The town has a car-sharing club.

Q3) As countries become more ____________________, their populations tend to grow more slowly.

Q4) An advantage of ____________________ is the decrease in birth rates and decrease in abortions.

Q5) Briefly explain the root cause of the increase in the world's population during the last 100 years.

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Chapter 7: Climate and Biodiversity

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Q1) Ocean currents in the southern hemisphere move in a clockwise fashion.

A)True

B)False

Q2) A lake that is described as oligotrophic is typically

A) low in primary productivity

B) low in plant nutrients

C) high in plant nutrients

D) both low in primary productivity and low in plant nutrients

E) both low in primary productivity and high in plant nutrients

Q3) upper layer where large, fast-swimming predatory fishes are found

A)euphotic zone

B)coral reef

C)Lake

D)tropical grassland

E)cold forest

F)temperate desert

Q4) Terrestrial ecosystems are referred to as biomes, but water-based ecosystems are not.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 8: Sustaining Biodiversity: the Species Approach

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Q1) The world's wild species provide natural resources and natural services that keep us alive and support human economies.

A)True

B)False

Q2) Briefly describe what a Japanese company has done in the U.S. state of Alabama with kudzu.

Q3) HIPPCO is

A) an acronym that summarizes the Endangered Species Act goals

B) an acronym to summarize the direct causes of extinction resulting from human activities

C) the name of an ecotourism company in Africa that specializes in hippopotamus sightings

D) an acronym to summarize the health care right to privacy act

E) an trading company in Africa that sells hippopotamus hides

Q4) An endangered species is any species that can

A) undergo alteration of its genetic traits

B) become rare within the next century

C) soon become extinct in all or part of its range

D) eventually become threatened or rare

E) be considered economically important, but is rare

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Chapter 9: Sustaining Biodiversity: the Ecosystem Approach

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Q1) The Body Shop is the name of a very popular and successful cosmetics and personal care chain of stores located in the United States and abroad. The founder of this store sought out natural remedies known by native peoples in developing countries, and does not use animal testing. She not only paid the natives for the recipes to the remedies, she employed them in production of the items for sale. How is this enterprise helpful to the preservation of wild species?

Q2) ____________________ is a non-tree plant fiber from a rapidly growing woody plant that yields more paper pulp per area of land than tree farms do.

Q3) Costa Rica's largest source of income is its $1 billion-a-year tourism industry, two-thirds of which is ____________________.

Q4) Removing dams and allowing rivers to flow freely can help restore biodiversity. A)True B)False

Q5) One suggestion for sustainably managing fisheries is to use wide-meshed nets for harvesting fish caught with nets. This would allow escape of

Q6) Wilderness serves as a(n) ____________________ bank.

Q7) What area on the graph represents a slight recovery in the collapsed fishery?

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Chapter 10: Food, Soil, and Pest Management

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Q1) Compared to conventional tillage, conservation tillage

A) reduces fuel and tillage costs

B) accelerates water loss from the soil

C) causes soil compaction

D) requires increased use of herbicides

E) can qualify the farmer for more government subsidies

Q2) Which of the following types of agriculture is most characteristic of developed countries?

A) plantation agriculture

B) traditional agriculture

C) industrialized agriculture

D) minimum-tillage agriculture

E) maximum-tillage agriculture

Q3) Overgrazing by cattle can ultimately result in water pollution.

A)True

B)False

Q4) greater use of renewable energy sources

A)industrialized agriculture

B)organic agriculture

Q5) Clearly explain the relationship between irrigation and salinization of soils.

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Chapter 11: Water Resources and Water Pollution

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Q1) Drip irrigation systems can increase crop yields by 20-90%.

A)True

B)False

Q2) In the western United States, as compared to the eastern United States, the major water problem(s) is (are)

A) Flooding

B) insufficient water for some urban areas

C) chronic drought and insufficient runoff

D) pollution of rivers, lakes, and groundwater

E) insufficient water for industry

Q3) The country with the highest percentage of agricultural land irrigated with drip irrigation is ____________________.

Q4) Humans increase the likelihood of flooding by all of the following activities except

A) building on wetlands

B) draining wetlands

C) removing water-absorbing vegetation

D) building a park on a riverbank

E) building levees

Q5) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of large dams and reservoirs.

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Chapter 12: Geology and Nonrenewable Minerals

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Q1) Fish populations in one area of Borneo have dropped by 70% due to

A) mining for lithium using mercury

B) mining for plutonium

C) strip mining

D) arsenic pollution secondary to gold mining

E) extracting gold from stream sediments using mercury

Q2) Which of the following is true?

A) A portion of the mantle is solid rock and a portion of it is molten.

B) The inner core is liquid, whereas the outer core is solid.

C) Extreme pressure makes the interior of the Earth liquid.

D) The core of the Earth occupies most of its volume.

E) The thickest zone is the crust.

Q3) On the figure of the tectonic plates, choose the letter that represents the oceanic crust.

Q4) Lignite and bituminous coal are ____ rocks.

A) metamorphic

B) igneous

C) tectonic

D) ore

E) sedimentary

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Chapter 13: Energy

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Q1) In order, the largest wind power producers are:

A) China, India, Spain, United States, Germany

B) Germany, China, United States, Spain, India

C) United States, India, Spain, Germany, China

D) China, United States, Spain, Germany, India

E) Denmark, United States, China, Germany, India

Q2) All of the following statements accurately describe the office-home building of the Rocky Mountain Institute except:

A) Solar energy provides 90% of the household electricity.

B) The Institute's heating bill is just less than $50 per year.

C) A central greenhouse in the building humidifies the building and helps to heat it and purify the air.

D) Except for office equipment power, the building draws a little more electricity than a single 100-watt light bulb would draw.

E) Solar energy provides about 99% of the hot water used in the building.

Q3) Water from the external cooling area penetrates inside the plant to which compartment?

Q4) Producing steel from recycled scrap iron uses _______________% less energy than producing steel from virgin iron ore.

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Chapter 14: Environmental Hazards and Human Health

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Q1) A person that develops asthma after living in a city with severe air pollution for decades is experiencing

A) a chronic effect

B) a subchronic effect

C) an acute effect

D) a subacute effect

E) a superacute effect

Q2) The most preventable kind of hazard is smoking.

A)True

B)False

Q3) Which of the following tools includes the other three?

A) risk assessment

B) risk management

C) risk analysis

D) risk communication

E) None of the choices includes any of the others.

Q4) A(n) ____________________ effect is an immediate or rapid reaction to exposure to a harmful substance.

Q5) PCBs-methyl mercury, arsenic, and lead-are all examples of ____________________.

Q6) At what age are males more likely to die from AIDS than females?

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Chapter 15: Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone

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Q1) How much did the surface temperature of the Earth change from 1950 to 2004?

Q2) Which of the following can be said about the indoor pollutant styrene?

A) It is found in carpets.

B) It is found in plastic products.

C) It causes kidney damage.

D) It causes liver damage.

E) All of these answers

Q3) On the acid deposition figure, choose the letter that represents the transformation to sulfuric acid and nitric acid.

Q4) Chinese automobile fuel efficiency standards are higher than those in the United States.

A)True

B)False

Q5) China's per capita carbon dioxide emissions rate will soon be greater than that of the U.S.

A)True

B)False

Q6) Cow belching results in the release of methane, a greenhouse gas.

A)True

B)False

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Chapter 16: Solid and Hazardous Waste

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Q1) An integrated waste management approach for industrial enterprises

A) eliminates unnecessary packaging

B) makes a product require frequent replacement

C) uses more material

D) encourages built-in obsolescence

E) all of these answers

Q2) Tires being shredded and converted into surfacing for public roads is an example of ____________________.

Q3) According to the EPA, all impoundment liners eventually ____________________.

Q4) Hazardous or toxic waste is waste that

A) threatens human health or the environment

B) is dangerously corrosive

C) is dangerously chemically reactive

D) all of these

E) none of these answers

Q5) Composting and source-separation recycling are both effective in reducing waste.

A)True

B)False

Q6) The ____________________ approach to recycling saves energy, provides jobs, and educates people about how to reduce waste.

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Chapter 17: Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews

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Q1) Militant environmental groups that use violence to achieve their ends

A) are considered valid by most environmentalists

B) are applauded by most NGOs

C) have never been active in the United States

D) are opposed by most environmentalists

E) all of these answers

Q2) If a leased Xerox machine's lease expires, the company

A) allows the customer to purchase it at a very low cost

B) takes the machine and sends it to a landfill

C) takes the machine back for reuse or re-manufacture

D) asks the customer to dispose of it in an ecologically sound way

E) sends the plastic and metal shell to a developing country for disposal

Q3) The practice of including the estimated harmful environmental and health costs of resource use in the market price of goods and services is called

Q4) A guiding principle for environmental sustainability that advises us not to make decisions that cannot be reversed later if the decision turns out to be wrong is the

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Q5) Machines, equipment, and factories are examples of ____________________ made from natural resources.

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