Natural Resource Management Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Natural Resource Management examines the principles and practices involved in the sustainable use and conservation of natural resources such as soil, water, air, minerals, forests, and wildlife. The course explores the ecological, economic, political, and social dimensions influencing resource management decisions. Students will analyze current challenges such as resource depletion, climate change, and biodiversity loss while learning about policy frameworks, management strategies, and community-based approaches to ensure the preservation of resources for future generations. Emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary methods and real-world case studies to equip students with practical skills in evaluating and developing sustainable management plans.
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Living in the Environment 17th Edition by G. Tyler Miller
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Chapter 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability
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Q1) What percentage of the world's total population lacks adequate sanitation facilities? Answer: 38%
Q2) What is the current percentage difference between humanity's ecological footprint and earth's ecological capacity?
Answer: approximately 25% above ecological capacity
Q3) The circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment through organisms and back to the environment, is called ____________________. Answer: nutrient cycling
Q4) ____________________ is the world's leading consumer of wheat, rice, meat, coal, fertilizers, steel, and cement.
Answer: China
Q5) The idea that we should be responsible, caring managers of the earth is
A)the planetary management worldview
B)the stewardship worldview
C)the environmental wisdom worldview
D)the environmental justice movement
E)all of these
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is the fundamental structural and functional unit of life?
A)atom
B)macromolecule
C)DNA
D)cell
E)organism
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following sources of iron would be of the highest quality?
A)iron deposits on the ocean floor
B)a field of spinach
C)a large, scrap metal junkyard
D)a one-half mile deep deposit of iron ore
E)iron in water
Answer: D
Q3) Methane, a hydrocarbon, is considered an organic molecule even though it contains only one carbon atom.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They
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Q1) Which of the following is not a type of consumer?
A)decomposer
B)producer
C)omnivore
D)carnivore
E)detritivore
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a primary link between photosynthesis and aerobic respiration?
A)phosphorus
B)sulfur
C)hydrogen
D)carbon
E)nitrogen
Answer: D
Q3) The rotten-egg smell coming from volcanoes and anaerobic decomposition in bogs and swamps comes from the gas ____________________.
Answer: hydrogen sulfide
H S
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Chapter 4: Biodiversity and Evolution
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Q1) Keystone species have a large effect on the types and abundances of other species in an ecosystem.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Long-term climate changes determine where plant and animal species can survive.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not an adaptation that has made humans so successful?
A)strong opposable thumbs
B)physical strength
C)upright walking
D)complex brain
E)All of these have made us successful.
Q4) Two-hundred-twenty-five million years ago, one super continent, called ____________________, was home to all terrestrial organisms.
Q5) Species that are only found in one area are called _______________ and are very vulnerable to extinction.
Q6) ____________________ diversity is the most obvious component of biodiversity.
Q7) Genetic variation in a population is the result of ____________________.
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Chapter 5: Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control
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Q1) Some prey species make themselves larger, startle the predator, or mimic a predator, all of which are called ____________________.
Q2) The most common form of population dispersion found in nature is ____________________.
Q3) Plants such as bromeliads share a commensalism interaction with large trees in tropical and subtropical forests.The bromeliads are an example of A)parasites
B)opportunistic parasites
C)epiphytes
D)prey
E)herbivores
Q4) Which of the following is an example of a density-dependent population control?
A)habitat destruction
B)fire
C)pollution
D)floods
E)competition for resources
Q5) Choose the portion of the curve that results from the interaction of reproductive ability and environmental resistance.
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Chapter 6: The Human Population and Its Impact
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Q1) Which diagram shows a declining population?
Q2) Infant mortality rate refers to the number of children per 1,000 births that die A)by their fifth birthday
B)before their first birthday
C)before six months
D)in their first month
E)before birth
Q3) The ____________________ is the number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.
Q4) In the United States, between 1820 and 1960 most legal immigration came from Asia. A)True
B)False
Q5) The U.S.generation born between 1946 and 1964 is known as the _______________ generation.
Q6) Choose the stage in which most countries experience zero growth rate.
Q7) India has a middle class approximately the same size as the entire population of the U.S.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Climate and Biodiversity
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Q1) Succulent plants are normally found in temperate forests.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Choose the letter(s) that represent(s) temperate deciduous forest.
Q3) Global warming has caused the melting of ____________________ in the tundra, with the release of methane and carbon dioxide, both greenhouse gases.
Q4) How much of the year is the tropical grassland below the freezing point?
Q5) Thick, spongy mats of low-growing plants, primarily grasses, mosses, and lichens, are typical of the A)arctic tundra
B)coniferous forest
C)tall-grass prairies
D)tropical forests
E)taiga
Q6) Vegetation layers in the tropical rain forests are structured mostly according to plants' need for ____________________.
Q7) ____________________ help redistribute het from the sun, thereby influencing climate and vegetation, especially near coastal areas.
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Chapter 8: Aquatic Biodiversity
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Q1) Found along some 70% of gently sloping sandy and silty coastlines in tropical and subtropical regions, and consisting of some 69 species of trees, are the
A)seagrass beds
B)barrier beaches
C)barrier islands
D)coral reefs
E)mangrove forests
Q2) Consider why global warming is likely to cause a lessening of the amount of available freshwater and how that would likely cause changes throughout the downhill flow of freshwater.
Q3) A jellyfish would be considered a type of which of the following?
A)benthos
B)zooplankton
C)nekton
D)phytoplankton
E)ultraplankton
Q4) Most lakes are hypereutrophic when considering the level of nutrients.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Sustaining Biodiversity: the Species Approach
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Q1) Consider the Case Study: Polar Bears and Global Warming.What do you think will be the result of removing the top predator from an ecosystem as vast as the Arctic? Be as specific as possible.
Q2) Illegal hunting for profit is called
A)subsistence hunting
B)sport hunting
C)commercial hunting
D)poaching
E)pilfering
Q3) The "extinction capital" of the United States is Alaska.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An endangered species
A)may soon become extinct over all or most of its range
B)is one that is evolving into another species
C)is one that may become rare in the next 100 years
D)may eventually become threatened or rare
E)may be considered economically important but rare
Q5) DDT can ____________________ by moving up the food chain and accumulating in the fat tissues of animals at high levels.
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Chapter 10: Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: the Ecosystem Approach
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Q1) From a strictly value perspective, would it be more valuable for nature to be allowed to recycle nutrients or provide raw materials?
Q2) According to a 2007 UN Food and Agriculture Organization report, approximately 60% of the world's forests are ____________________ forests.
Q3) As much as ____________________% of the wood consumed in the United States is wasted unnecessarily.
Q4) Four of the following are important ecological services provided by forests; one is not.Choose the one that is not.
A)Reduce soil erosion.
B)Release atmospheric carbon.
C)Purify water and air.
D)Influence local and regional climate.
E)Provide numerous wildlife habitats.
Q5) Poverty is one of the biggest causes of degradation of forests.How is that possible, and what solutions may there be?
Q6) Parks in developing countries possess the least biodiversity of all parks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity
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Q1) Creating and restoring wetlands has become a profitable business.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A serious problem that is faced in protecting ocean biodiversity is our lack of data on all of the following except
A)how ocean ecosystems work
B)how increasing levels of pollution affect species
C)the effect of rising acidity in the oceans
D)the effect of increasing water temperature
E)the effect of hurricanes on shorelines
Q3) What part should subsidies play, if any, in the effort to reach sustainable fishing?
Q4) At approximately what year did the cod fishery reach its maximum catch?
Q5) Coastal wetland destruction in industrial countries is lower than the destruction in less-developed countries.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Restoring degraded wetlands is a relatively easy process.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Food, Soil, and Pest Management
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Q1) What was the approximate increase in catch (in millions of metric tons) from 1960 to 2000?
Q2) In less-developed countries, the poor, those making less than $2.25 a day, typically spend how much of their income on food?
A)20%
B)35%
C)40%
D)58%
E)70%
Q3) When the productive potential of soil, especially on arid or semiarid land, falls by 10% or more because of prolonged drought and human activities, it is called
A)salinization
B)desertification
C)soil erosion
D)overgrazing
E)waterlogging
Q4) Government programs that reduce ____________________ also improve food security.
Q5) A(n) ____________________ is any species that interferes with human welfare.
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Q6) How many kilograms of grain does it take to produce one kilogram of beef?
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Chapter 13: Water Resources
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Q1) Water percolating downward until it comes to an impenetrable layer of rock is called groundwater.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Because there is so little freshwater, most of humanity manages what water they have in an efficient and helpful way.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Global competition for water to grow food will result in food shortages and hunger among the wealthier nations of the world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The southern part of the Aral Sea has lost 90% of its volume of water, destroying wetlands and eliminating large numbers of bird and mammal species.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Can produce cheap electricity (hydropower).
Q6) Provides water for irrigation of cropland.
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Chapter 14: Geology and Nonrenewable Mineral Resources
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Q1) What part makes up 71% of the crust?
A)oceanic crust
B)asthenosphere
C)lithosphere
D)continental crust
E)geosphere
Q2) Experts are particularly concerned about four strategic metal resources that are important for the U.S.economy and military strength, and that must be imported. Which of the following is not one of those metal resources?
A)cobalt
B)manganese
C)iron
D)chromium
E)platinum
Q3) Identified resources from which the mineral can be extracted profitably at current prices are called ____________________.
Q4) The slowest of the earth's cyclic processes is the carbon cycle.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Nonrenewable Energy
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Q1) Since 1984, the production of conventional crude oil from reserves has exceeded new oil discoveries.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What percentage of the U.S.population lives within 75 miles of an above-ground spent-fuel storage site?
A)23%
B)33%
C)43%
D)53%
E)63%
Q3) The long-term global outlook for conventional natural gas supplies is better than that for crude oil.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By 1850, Europeans were harvesting firewood faster than the forests could replace it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________ is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.
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Chapter 16: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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Q1) More than one-third of the world's people, in 77 less developed countries, are facing a fuelwood crisis, requiring them to cut down wood faster than it can be replaced.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not an advantage of locating wind farms offshore?
A)eliminates land use negotiations
B)takes advantage of stronger offshore winds
C)avoids complaints about noise
D)avoids complaints about their being unpleasant to look at
E)less costly to install
Q3) Growing biomass in plantation settings has all of the following disadvantages, except
A)depletion of soil nutrients
B)clearing forests for plantations degrades biodiversity
C)non-native species planted in plantations can spread to nearby ecosystems
D)plantation grown biomass is very expensive to burn
E)clearing forests for plantations reduces carbon dioxide capture
Q4) A ____________________ uses the temperature differential between the surface and 3-6 meters underground to heat and cool a house.
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Chapter 17: Environmental Hazards and Human Health
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Q1) A bacterium known as _______________ or MRSA has become resistant to most common antibiotics.
Q2) If you wanted to reduce your risk of dying, would you be better off by getting a much safer automobile or by getting a flu shot?
Q3) Research has indicated that long-term exposure to some chemicals may disrupt the body's immune, nervous, and endocrine systems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The top toxic substances in terms of human and environmental health include all of the following, except A)lead
B)mercury
C)vinyl chlorides
D)DDT
E)PCBs
Q5) Is your life expectancy shortened more by smoking or being unmarried?
Q6) People with AIDS are 30 to 50 times more likely to develop active tuberculosis. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Air Pollution
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Q1) ____________________ is a colorless gas used in foam insulation and can cause irritation of eyes, throat, skin, and lungs.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Temperature inversion occurs when a layer of cold air prevents warm air from rising.
B)Temperature inversions make pollution problems worse.
C)Temperature inversions last only a few minutes to a few hours.
D)Normally, cool air near earth's surface expands and rises, carrying pollutants higher into the troposphere.
E)Temperature inversions help prevent air pollution
Q3) The grasshopper effect occurs when air pollutants are transported from tropical and temperate areas to the earth's polar regions by evaporation and wind.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Methane is twenty times more effective at warming the atmosphere than is carbon dioxide.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A(n) ____________________ neutralizes a basic or acidic substance.
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Chapter 19: Climate Disruption and Ozone Depletion
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Q1) Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is on record saying that climate change is the most important challenge we face.
A)True
B)False
Q2) It has been suggested that the threat of global warming can be addressed by all of the following geoengineering strategies, except
A)adding iron to the oceans
B)build lots of chemical plants to remove ocean acidity
C)injecting sulfate particulates into the stratosphere
D)covering the oceans with Styrofoam chips
E)place giant mirrors in orbit above the earth to reflect sunlight
Q3) Methane levels in the atmosphere have tripled in the last 275 years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If Greenland's ice were to melt completely the global sea level would rise by 23 feet. A)True
B)False
Q5) Is the projected change of the surface temperature of the earth worrisome? Why?
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Chapter 20: Water Pollution
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Q1) Less than ____% of the water entering the Great Lakes leaves the St.Lawrence River.
A)1
B)8
C)16
D)32
E)64
Q2) All of the following are cleanup methods of controlling cultural eutrophication, except
A)using advanced waste treatment
B)treating plant growth with herbicides
C)harvesting excess weeds
D)pumping air through reservoirs to avoid oxygen depletion
E)removing algae using algaecides
Q3) Climate change contributes to water pollution in some areas by altering the levels of precipitation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cyanobacteria are commonly called _______________.
Q5) In which zone has the stream recovered, with a return of clean water organisms?
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Chapter 21: Solid and Hazardous Waste
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Q1) One way to deal with the creation of solid wastes is to reduce the environmental impact without trying to reduce the amount of waste produced.This is called
A)waste reduction
B)waste recycling
C)secondary pollution prevention
D)primary pollution prevention
E)integrated waste management
Q2) The second law of thermodynamics makes it important that which of the following rules is followed for landfills?
A)don't bury organic material
B)don't produce dust or noise
C)don't mix different types of waste you may want to separate later
D)don't use available land for landfills
E)don't use filled land for other purposes
Q3) Choose the letter that represents photostabilization.
Q4) Despite recycling 49% of its paper, the U.S.throws away more paper than all of the paper used in __________.
Q5) A ________________ waste collection system charges consumers for the amount of waste they throw away.
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Chapter 22: Cities and Sustainability
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Q1) Most of the world's cities have huge ecological footprints and are not self-sustaining systems.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The U.S.population is
A)shifting to the north and east
B)shifting to the north and west
C)shifting to the south and east
D)shifting to the south and west
E)shifting to the north and south
Q3) The average U.S.motorist will spend ____________________ of their life in traffic jams.
Q4) Ninety percent of the funds used to support local government services (schools, roads, police and fire protection, welfare, and so on) come from
A)income taxes
B)sales tax
C)property taxes
D)fees and licenses
E)gifts
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Chapter 23: Economics, Environment, and Sustainability
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Q1) All of the following would be forms of regulation, except
A)requiring that certain resources be protected from unsustainable use
B)setting acceptable levels of harmful activities
C)banning the release of toxic chemicals into the environment
D)selling pollution rights
E)requiring that certain resources be based on sustainable use
Q2) All of the following are direct costs of an automobile, except
A)maintenance and repair
B)gasoline
C)pollution and health
D)raw materials and labor
E)oil
Q3) Developed countries, in the year 2000, pledged to devote 0.7% of their national income toward reducing hunger and poverty, and moving toward environmental sustainability.What is the average actual amount donated by these countries?
A)2.0%
B)1.5%
C)0.75%
D)0.50%
E)0.25%
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Chapter 24: Politics, Environment, and Sustainability
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Q1) The author describes politics as concern "with who has power over the distribution of resources who gets what, and when and how they get it." (Core Case Study) Assuming this is an accurate description, what does this description imply in addressing environmental issues?
Q2) All of the following are things each of us can do to exercise our environmental leadership, except
A)Lead by example.
B)Work within existing economic and political structures to bring change.
C)Run for local office.
D)Propose and work for better solutions to environmental problems.
E)Hire lobbyists to promote our agenda in Washington.
Q3) At a fundamental level, all politics is ____________________.
Q4) Many nations have set aside more land for public use than the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Businesses facing environmental regulations often try to have people from the business appointed to high positions in the agencies regulating the business.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 25: Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability
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Q1) Technological fixes, such as being more efficient in resource use, have been able to keep up with expansion of global resource use.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Having a sense of connectedness with nature is not all that important to dealing with environmental problems.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most people with a life-centered worldview believe we have an ethical responsibility to avoid causing the premature extinction of species.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Research suggests we need only convince ____________________% of the people in a country or in the world to bring about major social change.
Q5) Some affluent people in more-developed countries have adopted a lifestyle of ____________________, in which they seek to live with much less than they are accustomed to having.
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