A) Slowing down the rate of population growth as well as reducing resource consumption levels will allow for more time to develop technological advances to find alternatives to non-renewable resources.
B) Even renewable resources must be used in a manner that allows for them to replenish or replace themselves and thus these resources should more accurately be considered potentially renewable and not be overexploited.
C) Developing countries are often faced with the difficult choice between exploiting natural resources to provide for their expanding populations in the short term (to pay for food or to cover debts) or conserving those resources for future generations.
D) Poverty does not impose any pressures on natural resources as the poor use barely any resources at all and what they do use is used very carefully and wisely for long term survival.
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A) fact.
B) law.
C) control.
D) theory.
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A) I - II - III - IV - V
B) III - I - V - II - IV
C) I - III - V - II - IV
D) V - IV- III - II - I
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A) Risk analysis
B) Political action
C) Long-term management and evaluation
D) Scientific assessment
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A) Our population has stopped growing and theirs is continuing to grow.
B) People living in these metropolitan areas have more money to spend to buy the goods.
C) We are using the natural resources of less developed countries to keep us supplied with goods and produce.
D) We recycle most of our goods.
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A) multiply the number of people times affluence per person times resources used and wastes produced (I=P x A x T)
B) multiply resource depletion times number of years divided by number of people (I = R x Y ÷ P)
C) multiply birth rate times consumption patterns divided by available resources (I= B x C ÷ R)
D) Divide number of people by resources needed and wastes produced (I = P ÷ T)
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A) Kudzu is shading out the rare plant.
B) The rare plant is unaffected by the presence of the kudzu.
C) Fewer individuals of the rare plant grow in the presence of kudzu when compared to areas without kudzu.
D) It will be impossible to remove kudzu from the park because it grows too fast.
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A) Science seeks to reduce complexity of the natural world to general principles which are used to provide new insights.
B) Scientific data is collected through observation and experimentation and thus questions of science are limited to testable questions.
C) Conclusions inferred from collected data are often based on faith,emotion,or intuition.
D) Confirming the validity of new results by repeatability is a requirement of science.
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A) recycling
B) attempts to limit human population growth
C) using technology to improve car mileage
D) use of non-renewable fossil fuels
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A) Two Earths
B) Three Earths
C) Four Earths
D) Five Earths
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A) Natural resources used by each person in an area.
B) Products bought and used by each person in an area.
C) The amount of people that can live in a given area.
D) The number of planet's worth of resources we have.
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A) that occurs when each individual in a population consumes too large a share of resources.
B) that results from the consumption-oriented lifestyles of people in highly developed countries.
C) in which there are too many people in a given geographical area.
D) in which the level of demand on resources is greater than the number of people in that geographic area.
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A) The United States has a very high immigration rate.
B) The United States has a very high birth rate compared to other developed countries and to China.
C) The United States,which is 5% of the world's population,consumes 25% of the world's resources.
D) The density of urban metropolitan centers like New York shows that the United States is also overpopulated.
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A) People would be healthier and happier worldwide.
B) Our current resources would run out quickly.
C) Violent conflicts would decrease because basic needs would be met.
D) Economies would prosper.
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A) We often do not understand all of the environmental impacts of a particular technology.
B) IPAT equations are usually inaccurate.
C) We often do not have the mathematical precision to interpret IPAT data.
D) IPAT equations are only useful for determining consumption in developing countries.
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A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 50%
D) 70%
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A) ecology
B) sociology
C) political science
D) environmental science
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