Carbon ranching allows industries or individuals that spew carbon into the atmosphere to make up for it by ________.
a. artificially pumping oxygen into the air
b. paying a country with forests to preserve those forests
c. manufacturing and recycling beverage bottles at a lower cost
d. reducing nitrogen emission
Zorro Corp., a company producing plastic products, ensures that carbon dioxide produced during various processes is buried underground and is not released into the atmosphere.
Which of the following approaches is Zorro Corp following in order to reduce its carbon footprint?
a. carbon sequestration
b. carbon capping
c. carbon ranching
d. carbon offset
Crenla Inc., a petroleum company, has exceeded its carbon emission limit. Crenla now has to purchase credits from Zanbril Inc., a low-polluting drug company, to pay for exceeding its emission limit.
In the given scenario, Crenla Inc. is engaged in ________.
a. carbon ranching
b. carbon offset
c. carbon sequestration
d. carbon trading
Which of the following statements is true of environmental partnerships?
a. Their goal is to identify an environmental problem and develop a solution.
b. Their goal is to pressurize the U.S. government to implement the Montreal Protocol.
c. They are collaborative partnerships that include only environmental groups and corporations.
d. They are the most coercive approaches to finding ways of alleviating environmental problems.
The Wise Use Movement has ________.
a. convinced developed nations to stop harvesting timber in national forests
b. convinced the U.S. government to implement the Kyoto protocol
c. been praised as the leader of environmental groups by Greenpeace
d. vigorously opposed environmental regulation in oil and gas exploration
Environmental justice refers to the idea that ________.
a. land degradation occurs when humans tamper with the environment
b. environmental hazards should be shared equally by various groups in society
c. an upper-size limit is imposed on a population by its environmental resources and that cannot be permanently exceeded
d. high technology and environmental preservation are at odds with one another
Which of the following is a characteristic of integrated pest management?
a. It completely eliminates the use of chemical pesticides.
b. It uses only organic pesticides.
c. It views a field of crops as an ecosystem.
d. It uses the Malthusian approach to pest management.
Gases such as carbon dioxide and methane contribute to the greenhouse effect by ________.
a. preventing the escape of solar infrared radiation
b. preventing sunlight from reaching the earth's surface
c. reducing the temperature of the earth's atmosphere
d. reducing oxygen levels in water bodies
Which of the following is true of global warming?
a. It occurs only because of natural environmental processes.
b. It is considered to be a serious problem by all scientists.
c. It has only negative consequences.
d. It is related to the greenhouse effect.
Which of the following is a true statement about the Kyoto Protocol?
a. It requires industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.
b. It requires developed countries to reduce their growth rate.
c. It requires all nations to reduce their emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals.
d. Its implementation has produced a substantial drop in greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
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