Exam 13: Environmental Problems

Which of the following would any violent crime intended to protect wildlife and the environment be defined as?

I am concerned with expansion of deserts into areas that used to be good for farming. What is this expansion called?

Deforestation contributes to desertification.

How are the Inuit victims of environmental racism?

Which of the following involves meeting the needs of the present world without endangering the ability of future generations to meet their own needs?

What is the primary cause of species decline?

What is sustainable development?

Which of the following was the Kyoto Protocol the first international agreement to place legally binding limits on?

In Canada, radioactive waste has been produced since the early 1930s.

Between the 1960s and the 1990s, how much of the world's tropical forests were cut or burned?

Which of the following causes the greenhouse effect?

What was the crisis that hit the Ontario town of Walkerton in the spring of 2000, killing 7 residents and making 2800 others sick?

Which of the following does deforestation contribute to?

Pollution in the Far North is so concentrated that the food supply is contaminated, and new mothers fear the dangers of breastfeeding their infants.

Desertification is the degradation of semi-arid land.

Which of the following are common indoor air pollutants?

About how many species of life have been identified on earth?

Individualism is a way of thinking central to agricultural economies.

The world's population tripled from 1960 to 1999.

What is greenwashing?