Questions about contemporary conservation issues and environmental awareness

I have some questions that I don’t know answers

1. True or False?:

Energy enters and leaves the Earth Ecosystem, while nutrients cycle within the Earth Ecosystem.

10. In a lecture, I described the confusion over the red wolf’s species identity. Which of the following concepts explains why the red wolf has been protected under the Endangered Species Act for decades (despite the uncertainty about its species status)?

Select the best answer from the options below.

15. The negative impacts of the brown-headed cowbird (a brood parasite) on songbirds have intensified due to habitat fragmentation, and this is an example of __________ ___________.

Complete the sentence with the best option from the list below.

18. Read the following excerpt from Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac.

Based on this excerpt, what is most likely Leopold’s environmental worldview (represented by the land ethic)?

“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in the community, but his ethics prompt him also to co-operate (perhaps in order that there may be a place to compete for). The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.”

—Aldo Leopold

20. In Module 5, we learned about ‘ecoperception’ — specifically that the structure of our brains impacts the way we perceive risk, including environmental risk.

We learned about different ‘mental shortcuts’ that we use (often unknowingly) to interpret new information and gauge risk.

For example, the way information feels (the way we perceive it) is powerfully influenced by the context and meaning in which it is presented.

If I told you about a new herbal supplement that my doctor prescribed, you might be more likely to trust it (because it was recommended by a medical professional). This mental shortcut is known as _________________.

21. Select any and allimpacts of roads on wildlife from the list below.

23. Choose the best answer to fill in the blank below.

We learned about several different methods of assigning a market price to non-economic values, including _________________, which determine(s) a market price by inferring (from market transactions) how much people are willing to pay for the non-economic values.