SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REVISION TEST 1. In order to achieve sustainability, what two things need protecting
for the future?
a. Environment and resources
b. People and resource
c. Environment and people
2. What is the official definition for sustainability?
a. Understanding how to meet the needs of the present
generation
b. Understanding how to meet the needs of the present without
compromising the needs of future generations to meet their
own needs
c. Understanding how to meet the needs of the future
generations
3. What is Agenda 21?
a. A set of rules for less developed countries to abide by
b. Agreed strategies that aim to make resource use more
sustainable
c. Laws put in place to restrict fuel emissions in cars
4. Which of the following is a strategy for building a sustainable
future?
a. Importing more resources
b. Using local materials
c. Developing more nuclear power stations
5. Which of the following is a sustainable resource?
a. Natural gas
b. Uranium
c. Wind
6. Which of these is an example of sustainability?
a. A power station burning fossil fuel
b. A wind farm out at sea
c. Private car use
7. What is a renewable resource?
a. Something that will run out
b. Something that is finite
c. Something that will not run out

8. Where does most of the Earth's energy come from?
a. Water
b. People
c. The Sun
9. What does a 'finite resource' mean?
a. The supply is renewable
b. The resource will continue forever
c. There is a limited supply
10. What are coal and oil made from?
a. Dead plants and animals
b. Volcanoes
c. Burning wood