1.  In the decades long battle over economic vs. environmental tradeoffs, a new development is that renewable energy  _____________________________.

1) has become cleaner        2) has become more expensive       3) has become the environmentally responsible choice

4) is driving job creation     5) has benefited from easing of pollution control standards 

2.  In contrast to "the enhanced greenhouse effect," the natural greenhouse effect can be linked to ___________________.

1) human activities              2) a radiant heat energy trapping mechanism  

3) global climate change    4) fossil fuel combustion           5) increased atmospheric CO₂ 

3.  Select the ordered triplet that best completes the following: "Those who value the Economic Growth theme might charge that _______________ is a burden on the economy cutting GDP by nearly ___, while those who value the Sustainability theme might counter that ______________ annually cuts global economic output by roughly 10%.  

1) pollution, 1%/yr, over-regulation        2) pollution, 10%/yr, over-regulation               

3) over-regulation, 1%/yr, pollution        4) over-regulation, 10%/yr, pollution      5) none of the above 

4.  Which of the following associations is wrong?

1) renewable energy use example / recycling

2) origin of enhanced greenhouse effect / human activity has upset energy balance   

3) carbon footprint  /  quantitative measures of associated greenhouse gas 

4) deforestation / leads to increased atmospheric CO₂

Response

5. The phrase “value of what these resources could have brought in or produced if they had instead been used in some alternative way ” might be part of the definition of which of the terms below? 

1) human capital cost      2) opportunity cost         3) perturbation

4) energy balance          5) rate of return  

6.  _________________________  include(s) natural resources (air, water, soil, forests, minerals, fossil fuels, fish, etc) and the biodiversity of natural living ecosystems

 1) Measures of gross domestic product (GDP)           2) Measures of infrastructure         3) Carbon footprint              

4) Natural capital                                5) Renewable resource inventories 

7. Select the ordered pair that best completes the following. "In making an analogy between the _______ associated with a person's food intake vs. burning calories and that for the Earth maintaining a stable long-term climate with solar input vs. heat lost to space, a person's________  is analogous to Earth's  ___________." 

1)  cost vs. benefit ratio, weight,  average temperature     2) cost vs. benefit ratio,  average temperature, weight  

3)  energy balance, weight,  average temperature             4)  energy balance, average temperature, weight    

5)  mass balance, weight, mass

8. Most economists agree that all of the following are ways to increase a nation's production output except which?

1) increased population growth rate      2) increased investment in economic infrastructure   

3) increased regulations   4) making technological changes     5)  improving the political and socioeconomic climate

9.  Those who prefer the Sustainability theme over the Economic Growth theme are most likely _______________.  

1) realistically taking a longer term perspective                                         2) concerned about job creation         

3) discounting possible future technological developments     4) overly alarmed by worst case projections   

5)  discounting the market system's capability to self-correct 

10. Which of the following associations is wrong?

1) measuring nation's economic growth / rate of change of gross domestic product per person typically used

2) wind, hydroelectric, biofuels / indirect solar energy

3) global population growth rate / still increasing

4) moderate economic growth  /  3% to 4% / year range

5) basis for good investment  / expected return less than cost of borrowing

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