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15 Cards in this Set
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The Arctic National Wildlife Reserve sets aside a natural area to protect it from human activities. This is an example of
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preservation.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps was established during the Great Depression to
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employ men to build dams and plant trees.
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Who was the U.S. naturalist who painted lifelike portraits of birds and voiced concerns about conserving natural resources?
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John James Audubon
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Naturalist John Muir is best known forCorrect!
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establishing the Sierra Club.
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Who was responsible for heightening public awareness about the dangers of using DDT?
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Rachel Carson
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Gifford Pinchot wanted forests managed in terms of their sensible and careful usefulness to people. He was considered a(n):
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utilitarian conservationist
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Why is the National Environmental Policy Act considered the cornerstone of U.S. environmental law?
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It provides regulatory oversight to reduce adverse environmental impacts of federal projects.
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An Environmental Impact Statement is a document that
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describes the environmental consequences of proposed federal actions.
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Economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits must be evaluated for
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full cost accounting
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Which of the following is an example of a “sink” in environmental economics?
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waste that accumulates when a product is no longer useful.
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waste that accumulates when a product is no longer useful.
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environmental factors are not taken into account.
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Pollution that causes environmental degradation that reduces profits made by other sectors of the economy (ex. Mercury pollution from burning coal may kill fish that food industries need) is measured by the ___ cost of pollution.
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marginal
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The government sets an allowable amount of pollution and lets companies buy and sell the right to release this pollution in a common incentive based regulatory approach called:
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tradable permits.
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Which of the following forest management strategies is least likely to be advocated by a utilitarian conservationist?
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absolutely no resource extraction for any reason
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If a company chooses to pollute rather than not to pollute, it will make a larger contribution to the GDP because the national income accounts
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attach no explicit value to a clean river.
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