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Which outcome most accurately portrays the future for the timber company in the following scenario? A timber company that cuts and sells its own wood has been in high demand for the past three years. The company has gone through many acres of forest in its area, but it is sure to plant tree seeds after it bulldozes a section.

A
The timber company will continue to grow because of its good business practices, and it will become the number one timber company in the country.
B
The timber company will lose business soon because not many people will need to build houses and buildings anymore.
C
The timber company will go out of business due to the rising number of buildings using cement and concrete rather than timber.
D
The timber company will run out of trees quickly because the seedlings will not have enough time to become full-grown timber.
3

Which option is the best action for the forest surveyors to take in the following scenario? A group of forest surveyors discovers a section of a forest that is dying. They check the trees and discover that a strain of disease has caused them to die. Even though the saplings look like they are dying, they discover that the saplings and plants on the ground are not diseased, just malnourished.

A
The surveyors decide to leave the area in its current condition, which will allow the forest to handle the tree disease as it naturally would.
B
The surveyors hire a group of loggers to bulldoze the entire section of forest and let the forest regrow as it naturally would.
C
The surveyors decide to cut down all the plants and construct new buildings on the land rather than regrow in a diseased area.
D
The surveyors hire a group of loggers to cut down the diseased trees in order to allow the plants and saplings to receive light and nutrients.
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A farmer has decided to switch from the current way of raising livestock to a more sustainable way. Which of the following best describes the type of environmental change that the livestock will experience?

A
The livestock currently live in barns, and they will be hand-fed grain to make their lifestyle more sustainable.
B
The livestock currently live in barns, and they will be let into an open range to make their lifestyle more sustainable.
C
The livestock currently live in a field, and they will be put into barns in order to make their lifestyle more sustainable.
D
The livestock currently live in a field, and they will be hand-fed grain to make their lifestyle more sustainable.
5

Which of the following is considered by some to be an unhealthy practice when using sustainable agriculture practices?

A
drip irrigation
B
selective logging
C
bio-intense integrated pest management
D
genetic engineering
6

Which of the following defines the term “sustainable”?

A
eating less food to ensure that future generations have enough to eat
B
modifying plants and animals to make them more resistant to diseases
C
using natural resources at full force in order to power machines and water crops
D
being wise with natural resources to ensure their presence for future generations
8

Which of the following is NOT a way that farmers use sustainable water practices?

A
drip irrigation
B
extracting water from wells
C
changing the type of pesticides
D
reusing rain water
9

Which option best explains why the cotton stopped growing in the following scenario? After realizing that cotton was his only crop that yielded a profit, a farmer decided to plant and harvest only cotton in his fields. Over a five-year consecutive planting of cotton, the yields steadily declined. The farmer did not provide any soil amendments.

A
The pests had become accustomed to the type of pesticide that the farmer was using.
B
The soil was depleted of its nutrients because the farmer did not replenish the land.
C
The farmer stopped watering the plants because he relied too much on rainfall.
D
The rain was tainted from pollution and other harmful effects of global warming.
10

The term sustainable living is often referred to as which of the following?

A
active lifestyle
B
healthy lifestyle
C
meat-free living
D
green living
11

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