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    Ch15 Questions and Answers

    Today businesses do not bother with sustainability.


      a. True
      b. False
    ANSWER:  False

    Externalities are side effects or by-products of actions that are not intended, but unavoidably impact
    others
      a. True
      b. False
    ANSWER:  True

    Industrial waste, urban and agricultural runoff, and overharvesting are forms of water pollution.
      a. True
      b. False
    ANSWER:  True

    A global water crisis has developed as a result of drought, pollution, mismanagement and politics.
      a. True
      b. False
    ANSWER:  True

    The "Silent Stakeholder" is the natural environment.


      a. True
      b. False
    ANSWER:  True

    Seventy percent of the world's poor live in rural areas, dependent  on biological resources.
      a. True
      b. False
    ANSWER:  True

    In addition to being a leading cause of pollution when used, fossil fuels are also often associated with
    armed conflict.
      a. True
      b. False
    ANSWER:  True

    The triple bottom line is a system of reporting that covers economic, social, and environmental
    performance.
      a. True
      b. False
    ANSWER:  True

    A measure of disorder of energy, indicating its unavailability for recycling for the same use, is
      a. entropy.
      b. dissolution.
      c. atrophy.
      d. declination
    .
    ANSWER:  a

    All living and nonliving substances present in a particular place is a(n)


      a. environment
    .
      b. ecosystem.
      c. ecology.
      d. habitat.
    ANSWER:  b

    The variation of life forming inside a system is


      a. degradation.
      b. biodiversity.
      c. is an indicator of its efficiency.
      d. salinization.
    ANSWER:  b

    The prevention of solar heat absorbed by our atmosphere from returning to space is known as
      a. ozone depletion.
      b. deforestation.
      c. the greenhouse
    effect.
      d. acid rain.
    ANSWER:  c

    Which country releases 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year due to deforestation?
      a. Russia
      b. Indonesia
      c. the United States
      d. less developed
    countries
    ANSWER:  b

    What is not part of the waste management mantra?


      a. reuse
      b. rehabilitat
    e
      c.  recycle
      d. reduce
    ANSWER:  b
    Hazardous wastes can include all the following except
      a. solids.
      b. food.
      c. contained
    gases.
      d. sludges
    ANSWER:  b

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