Environmental Policy MCQs

Environmental Policy MCQs

Answer these 20+ Environmental Policy MCQs and assess your grip on the subject of Environmental Policy.
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1: A substance that was used to try to kill the foliage to make it easier for anti-American Vietnamese soldiers to hide during the _______ is called agent orange

A.   Kargul war

B.   Vietnam war

C.   Justice war

D.   None of these

2: The idea that the temperature on the planet is changing as a result of human activity and therefore can be influenced by changing certain human activity such as reducing emissions, reducing deforestation, and reducing our reliance on cattle farming is called climate change

A.   True

B.   False

3: DDT explains that once widely used pesticide with significant harmful health side effects that has been outlawed in the United States since the early ______

A.   1960s

B.   1970s

C.   1980s

D.   2000s

4: A environmental _______ perspective that focuses on the overlap between environmental pollution and the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people with lower incomes and people of color

A.   Truth

B.   Justice

C.   Injustice

D.   Functional

5: Executive Order ______ explains A federal ruling issued during the Obama administration that required federal agencies to consider environmental justice to rectify policies that disproportionately impacted minority and low-income populations

A.   12880

B.   12898

C.   12990

D.   12888

6: The process of extracting fossil fuels, primarily oil and natural gas, from shale or rocks buried deep in the ground is called

A.   Fraction

B.   Fracking

C.   Riders

D.   None of above

7: Those who benefit from public goods (such as clean air) without paying when they use, compromise, or destroy them is called _____ riders

A.   Working

B.   Free

C.   Change

D.   Struggle

8: A small U.S. political party whose main goals are to reduce the military infrastructure, reduce or eliminate the use of fossil fuel and become more reliant on renewable energy, create a living wage and make our political system more democratic is called green party

A.   True

B.   False

9: An international green building certification that indicates that the building construction has made efforts to ensure that the building is energy efficient and made with substances that are less likely to harm people or the environment than those used in typical construction is called LEED

A.   True

B.   False

10: The midpoint in a group of numbers. Median income, for example, is the point where half of the people whose income is measured have higher incomes and half have lower incomes is called

A.   Mode

B.   Median

C.   Grade

D.   Mean

11: A concept, sometimes adopted in policy, according to which something is prohibited unless and until it is proven to be safe is called

A.   Precautionary principle

B.   Non-Precautionary principle

C.   Hazard principle

D.   General principle

12: What is the process of extracting fossil fuels from shale or rocks buried deep in the ground?

A.   Fracking

B.   Bracketing

C.   Extraction

D.   Drilling

13: Which of these Acts was the first effort to control air quality in the United States?

A.   The Clean Air Act

B.   Air Pollution Control Act

C.   National Environmental Policy Act

D.   The Coastal Zone Management Act

14: Which of these Acts established national air quality control?

A.   Toxic Substance Control Act

B.   National Environmental Policy Act

C.   Air Pollution Control Air

D.   The Clean Air Act

15: The Safe Drinking Water Act was enacted for ______.

A.   Only public drinking water

B.   Public drinking water and private well water

C.   Private well water

D.   The sale of bottled water

16: Which of these states has more stringent environmental laws than the federal government?

A.   Pennsylvania

B.   Minnesota

C.   Ohio

D.   California

17: In which war did the U.S. military use Agent Orange to try to kill the foliage that hid the enemy military?

A.   Mexico

B.   Cambodia

C.   Iraq

D.   Vietnam

18: In which of these situations were social workers brought in to help families deal with the aftereffects of the crisis?

A.   The Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion

B.   The Keystone XL pipeline

C.   The Dakota Access Pipeline crisis

D.   The Ebola crisis in West Africa

19: Which term describes contracts between owners of land and conservation groups, where the owner allows limited use of their property to maintain conservation?

A.   Conservation land contracts

B.   Conservation land trusts

C.   Conservation agreement

D.   Conservation contract

20: Environmental problems can be affected through actions of individuals and private companies, not just government decisions.

A.   True

B.   False

21: The United States signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.

A.   True

B.   False

22: International environmental policies arise from ________.

A.   International conventions or treaties

B.   Ingenuity and determination

C.   Have decreased due to human development

D.   Saves money