SUST201 Midterm 1 Exam Questions and Answers | Verified | 2026

SUST201 Midterm 1 Exam Questions and Answers | Verified | 2026 which of the following most accurately describes an environmental justice issue rather than a climate justice issue? - answer-A) high rates of heat exhaustion in an affordable housing apartment building without air conditioning B) An increase of flooding in informal settlements outside Dhaka, Bangladesh C) the placement of a nuclear test site near a marginalized country D) The migration of people from Somalia due to prolonged droughts 3 phases of sustainable development - answer-1) earth as a finite limited environment 2) introduction and proliferation of term "sustainable development 3) contemporary fragmentation of sustainability Early thinkers on sustainability - answer-since humans survival and quality of life is contingent on natural resources, early sustainability concerns are present in resource management fields such as agriculture and forestry early use of a word meaning "sustainability" occurred in 1713 book Sylvincultura economic by German forester Hans carl von Carlowitz pueblo story of sustainability - answer-think of the video we watched in class: what are some main features of a pueblo perspective of sustainability?-share a common story -emergence -interdependence of relations, related, connections -pathway in life, "look to the mountain", look at the past, present, future -understanding yourself -unity, diversity -spirituality -land sustains us we sustain it Rachel Carson silent spring book - answer-1960s -growing environmental movement biologist/conservationist 1962 book silent spring described the effects of insecticide, DDT(dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) on animals and humans through bioaccumulation- through food chain farmers used to kill birds off the fields bioaccumulation - answer-an increase in the concentration of a chemical in a biological organism over time, compared to the chemical's concentration in the environment space ship earth - answer-first coloured image of earth taken from Apollo 8 in 1968 "cowboy economy/earth" good "spaceship earth" bad UNEP - answer-United Nations environment progamme established in 1972