This comprehensive assessment covers the whole Environmental Sustainability unit: the science of climate change, its impacts, mitigation and adaptation, and sustainability principles including caring for Country.
This quiz assesses your understanding of the entire Environmental Sustainability unit.
Weather vs climate, natural variation, the greenhouse effect and the evidence for human-caused change.
Ocean and biodiversity impacts, mitigation, renewable energy, adaptation and international action.
Planetary boundaries, the circular economy, equity, fair investigations and unit synthesis.
1. Climate is best defined as:
2. A natural cause of long-term climate change is:
3. The natural greenhouse effect:
4. The enhanced greenhouse effect is mainly caused by:
5. The strongest single piece of evidence that extra CO2 comes from fossil fuels is:
6. The oceans have absorbed about what share of the excess heat?
7. Ocean acidification occurs because:
8. Sea-level rise is driven mainly by:
9. Which is a renewable energy source?
10. Which pair is classified correctly?
11. In a circular economy, the highest priority for cutting waste is to:
12. Aboriginal cultural (cool) burning is:
13. Sustainability means:
14. The planetary boundaries framework shows that:
15. The best overall conclusion from this unit is that:
16. Explain the difference between the natural and enhanced greenhouse effect, and give TWO lines of evidence that recent warming is human-caused. 5 MARKS
17. Describe TWO impacts of climate change (with data), and for ONE of them explain a mitigation strategy and an adaptation strategy. 5 MARKS
18. Explain what a circular economy is and why recycling alone is not enough to solve the waste problem. 4 MARKS
19. "Achieving environmental sustainability needs modern science, practical action, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, and fairness to future generations." Evaluate this statement using specific examples from the unit. 6 MARKS
Tick when you have finished all questions and reviewed your answers.