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1) What species became the symbol for the
conflict between environmentalists and loggers in the Pacific Northwest?
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a)
Bald
Eagle
b)
Northern Spotted Owl
c)
Cutthroat
Trout
d) Timber Wolf
e)
Snail
Darter
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1) What is the best definition of
conservation?
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a)
setting
aside land and natural resources
b)
careful management of land and resources
c)
using
land and natural resources based on current needs
d) multiple use management of land and
natural resources
e)
preservation
of land and natural resources
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1) What is the best definition of
preservation?
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a)
setting aside land and natural resources
b) careful management of and and resources
c)
using
land and natural resources based on current needs
d) multiple use management of land and
natural resources
e)
conservation
of land and natural resources
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1) Who wrote one of the first books
discussing human impact on global environmental change?
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a)
Audubon
b) Carson
c)
Marsh
d) Muir
e)
Stegner
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1) Who among the following would most likely
believe that natural resources should be used for the greatest good for the
most people for the longest time?
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a)
Audubon
b)
Carson
c)
Muir
d)
Pinchot
e)
Thoreau
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1) The establishment of the stadium in Hetch
Hetchy Canyon in Yosemite resulted in what important change to the US Park
service's mission?
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a)
“for
the enjoyment of people” was removed
b)
“without impairment” was added
c)
“to
preserve parks” was added
d) ”and monuments” was removed
e)
it
transferred management from the Army to the Park Service
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1) The soil conservation service was formed
after what environmental crisis?
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a)
Mudslides
in California following the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906.
b) Severe erosion following forest fires in
Yellowstone National Park in the 1980s.
c)
Soil
contamination by toxic waste at love Canal in the 1970s.
d)
Severe erosion following windstorms in the
1930s.
e)
Loss
of soil following the creation of the Hetch Hetchy Canyon Dam.
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Which of the
following pieces of literature helped foster support for the Wilderness Act of
1964?
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a)
A
Sand County almanac
b) Silent Spring
c)
Game
Management
d) Walden
e)
Wilderness Essay
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1) What important environmental book about
problems associated with pesticide use was written by Rachel Carson?
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a)
A
Sand County almanac
b)
Silent Spring
c)
Game
Management
d) Walden
e)
Wilderness
Essay
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1) Which U.S. president was most responsible
for setting aside national forests in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
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a)
Grover
Cleveland
b) Benjamin Harrison
c)
Abraham
Lincoln
d) Herbert Hoover
e)
Theodore Roosevelt
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1) Whose work heightened public awareness and
concern about the use of pesticides and ultimately led to restriction on the
use of certain pesticides?
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a)
George
Perkins Marsh
b) Henry David Thoreau
c)
Paul
Ehrlich
d) Aldo Leopold
e)
Rachel Carson
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Who introduced the
concept of the land ethic?
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a)
George
Perkins Marsh
b) Henry David Thoreau
c)
Paul
Ehrlich
d)
Aldo Leopold
e)
John
Muir
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1) Whose book described the damage the
increasing number of humans was having on Earth's life support system?
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a)
George
Perkins Marsh
b) Henry David Thoreau
c)
Paul Ehrlich
d) Aldo Leopold
e)
Rachel
Carson
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1) Which of the following definitions best
describes an environmentalist?
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a)
A
scientist who studies the environment.
b) Writers who write about corporate America.
c)
Someone who is concerned about the
environment.
d) A scientist who studies the interactions
of plants and animals.
e)
A
philosopher who studies environmental ethics.
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1) People's realization of environmental
problems including pesticides, increasing population, and loss of natural
resources helped establish which of the following events or organizations?
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a)
The
Antiquities Act
b)
Earth Day
c)
The
Audubon Society
d) The Sierra Club
e)
The
USDA
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