Enviro Midterm Review Quiz
Enviro Midterm Review Quiz
Test your knowledge on environmental issues, sustainability, and ecological concepts with our comprehensive quiz! This midterm review features 48 thought-provoking questions designed to challenge your understanding of global population dynamics, water resources, pollution, and development.
Perfect for students, teachers, and anyone passionate about the environment. Key features include:
- Multiple choice questions covering various environmental topics
- Immediate feedback on your answers
- Fun and engaging way to reinforce your learning
World population and world production of most products are growing:
Exponentially
Linearly
Episodically
Quadratically
Name the new geological era where humans are the dominant force altering the planet
Paleocene
Halocene
Anthropocene
Oligocene
In exponential growth, the “doubling time” is:
The sum of the individual growth rates
Something that can grow out of control in “double or nothing” betting
A variable, dictated by r and t
The time when N reaches No x 2
Carbon emissions = (population) x (Energy/person) x (Carbon/energy) is an example of:
A model of logistic growth
Exponential growth where population is acting as a “challenge multiplier”
The IPAT Equation
A model of demographic transition
Carrying capacity is the function of:
Exponential growth
Logistic growth
Logarithmic growth
Linear growth
In logistic growth, “environmental resistance” is defined by the term:
Ro
1-N/K
R
T*
What TFR is considered a replacement rate:
1.1
2.1
2
1.5
Which continent is going to dominant global population growth in the next 50 years?
Africa
South America
Asia
North America
To achieve demographic transition, a country must:
Reduce child mortality
Keep girls in school
Make contraception available
All of the above
What well known economy theory is related to sustainability?
Free Market
Invisible hand
Tragedy of the Commons
Marxism
Paying $10k/yr for a car (incl. gas, insurance, etc.) but not paying for the health and environmental costs of its pollution is an example of:
Tragedy of the Commons
Negative externality
Market failure
All of the above
What is the greatest example of market failure according to chief economist of the World Bank
Climate change
COVID-19
Stock market crash
Financial crisis 2007-2008
Our impact on the environment- combination of what we consume, and the waste we produce, is defined by:
Ecological image
Ecological fingerprint
Ecological footprint
Ecological history
When a country’s ecological footprint per person (EFPP) exceeds its Biocapacity, this is called:
Ecological deficit
Ecological credit
Earth overshoot
Equivalent land area required to provide resources exceeds land area required to absorb emissions
What time in history humanity switched from ecological reserve to ecological deficit
1980
1960
1970
1990
Human development index (HDI) depends on
Average income and access to clean water
Average amount of education and amount of energy per person
Average amount of education and average income
Average life expectancy and education in child mortality
India with an HDI of 0.65 is classified as:
Very high human development
Medium human development
High human development
Low human development
Global sustainable development requires:
HDI > 0.8 and EFPP (gha) < 1.7
HDI > 0.7 and EFPP (gha) < 1.0
HDI < 0.8 and EFPP (gha) > 1.7
HDI > 0.8 and EFPP (gha) > 1.7
A takeaway of Hans Rowling’s “green and blue boxes” talk is that reaching a stable world depends on:
Raising child survival rates for the world's poorest billion people
Redistributing the wealth of the richest countries
Everyone having a bicycle, car, or plane for transport
Spreading democracy to the worlds poorest billion people
What percentage of the Earths water is groundwater?
1.7
0.07
0.7
7
The shortest residence time of water is in:
Rivers
Oceans
Atmosphere
Groundwater
What percentage of population is predicated to be water stressed by 2025:
66%
85%
50%
72%
In Canada, most of the water is used for:
Power generation
Agriculture
Municipal
Mining
Water consumption in food (“water we eat”) can reach up to:
1000L/person/day
250L/person/day
5000L/person/day
500L/person/day
An example of point source pollution would be:
Salt runoff from 401
Sewage pipes draining into lakes
Fertilizer from lawns seeping into groundwater
Beach trash that gets into water
Name categories of pathogens:
Protozoa, viruses, arsenic
Bacteria, Protozoa, nutrients
Viruses, Protozoa, bacteria
Bacteria, viruses, pharmaceuticals
Water quality standard for Ecoli for drinking water:
10 total coliforms / 100mL
0 total coliforms / 100mL
200 total coliforms / 100mL
100 total coliforms / 100mL
The higher the BOD, the:
Lower water pollution
Lesser bacteria in water
More air pollution
More water pollution
What is the most commonly used disinfectant?
Heat
Ozone
Chlorine
UV light
Acid mine drainage water pollution problem has to do with:
Highly eutrophic water discharging to lakes
Highly acidic water that drains from mine waste.
Water with high content of heavy metals
Water that has high BOD and low dissolved oxygen level
How much waster rock is generated during the extraction of 1.4 billion tons of refined metals from the earth each year?
20 billion
15 billion
5 billion
10 billion
Most common suffice in mine waster rock is:
Sulfuric acid
Pyrite
Magnetite
Diamond
In acid mine drainage, when pH < 3.5:
Metals are dissolved and stream is clear
Metals precipitate and stream becomes yellow in colour
Stream water quality is good
Murky water due to high acidity
Buffering capacity of water is called:
Turbidity
Acidity
Hardness
Alkalinity
Main cations contributing to drinking water hardness:
Fe3+ and Ca2+
Fe3+ and Al3+
Ca2+ and Mg2+
Ca2+ and Mn2+
Water with hardness of 290 mg/L as CaCO3 is considered:
Very hard water
Hard water
Moderately hard water
Soft water
If someone lives in the house built before 1950-1960s, they should be concerned about what water contaminants?
Cadmium
Arsenic
Mercury
Lead
The movie Erin Brockovich is about:
Micro plastic poisoning
Chromium poisoning
Lead poisoning
Arsenic poisoning
An example of water pollution caused by excess nutrients:
Global warming
Ecoli outbreak
Algae bloom
Acid mine drainage
Oligotrophic lake is the lake which is all of the following Except:
Young lake
Has low nutrients
Has high amount of silt and organic matter
Has high drinking water quality
What is “dead-zone”?
Zone with high lead levels
Low oxygen zone
Zone with high acidity
Zone with high temperature
Largest “dead-zone” in the world:
Gulf of Mexico
Persian gulf
Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Oman
Factors contributing to current Lake Erie algae blooms include all of the following except:
Use of high phosphate detergents
Increased rainfall and runoff
Increase in agriculture and farming
Lake Erie is the shallowest and warmest of the Great Lakes
Recovery from exposure to refined oil can take marine life up to:
> 100 years
1-5 years
50-100 years
10-20 years
Deep water Horizon oil spill of 2010 occurred in:
Russia
Alaska
Gulf of Mexico
East China Sea
Since 1959 pesticide use increased:
20 times
100 times
50 times
10 times
Some of the disadvantages of modern pesticides include all of the following except:
Kill all natural predators and parasites that “control” pests
Threaten human health
Harm wildlife
Slow down food production
Perfluorated chemicals (PFCs) are used in all of the following except:
Food packaging
Iron cast pans
Fire fighting foams
Non stick cookware
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