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Questions
1. Three major issues in environmental sustainability are biodiversity, solar energy, and nutrient cycles.
True or False
2. Matter is lost in nutrient cycles such as the water, carbon-oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles.
True or False
3. An ecological footprint can be defined as the number of global hectares of land and water resources needed to support one's lifestyle; we need to reduce our ecological footprints in the US to have a sustainable future.
True or False
4. The biosphere is made up of biomes which are made up of ecosystems; ecosystems are less stable when they have very diverse communities and populations of organisms.
True or False
5. Animals depend on plants such as fruit and/or vegetables and/or grains for survival.
True or False
6. Food webs can be very biodiverse and upper consumers can play different roles in that food web.
True or False
7. Organisms in a food web depend on each other for the survival of each population; the equilibrium of the food web populations can be impacted positively or negatively by changes to any one population.
True or False
8. The sun's energy moves from producers upward to different types of consumers; in an energy pyramid, the sun's energy increases from producers to consumers.
True or False
9. Humans are part of the food web and nature; by ignoring this, we put our species in peril of extinction by the misuse of resources.
True or False
10. Organisms change over time to adapt to the environment; the most adapted organisms to the environment will survive and reproduce.
True or False