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1. What percentage of Canada’ s total land area is occupied by cities?

0.2
0.5
0.8
1.0

2. If you were a consultant to city planners, which of the following would you NOT suggest as a way to achieve more sustainable urban transportation?

Provide only one transit system and discourage all other forms of travel within the boundaries of the city
Shift the budget emphasis from roads to transit systems
Improve the efficiency, speed, reliability, and general attractiveness of the public transit system
Reduce the need for long-distance travel by designing a city where compact centres of intense mixed activity are linked by mixed corridors

3. What accounts for the recent decrease in per capita water consumption in the City of Calgary?

A population that has declined over the last ten years
A water meter incentive program that allows residents to choose between flat and metered pricing systems
Residents that have voluntarily restricted the use of water for lawn watering and car washing
The city that has imposed severe and mandatory water-use restrictions on all water users since 1980

4. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Alberta Sustainable Energy Home/Office in Calgary?

It was financed by a conventional mortgage with some small assistance from the government
It is about the size of a 170 m³ three-bedroom house
It uses alternative energy sources
It is a project with three distinct phases

5. Which of the following is true about waste generation and disposal in Canada?

Sweden generates more waste per capita than Canada
The Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment established a national target of a 30 percent reduction from 1988 levels for solid waste generation
At the end of 2000, Nova Scotia was able to reduce its solid waste by 50 percent
In 1992, Canadians generated 40 million tonnes of municipal solid waste

6. Which of the following advantages do rural trees have over their urban counterparts?

Rural trees get more water than urban ones
Rural trees are less susceptible to air and soil pollution than urban ones
Rural trees are less threatened by human traffic than urban ones
All of the above

7. The main objective of the Ontario’ s Green Communities program is focused on energy conservation in what type of community?

small centres
major centres
rural centres
all of the above

8.Which agency is leading a consortium of four Canadian partners to help Polish municipalities to acquire Canadian technology in their waste management?

Environment Canada
CIDA
Environmental Friends of Canada
International Centre for Sustainable Cities

9. Which city in North America has reported that it stabilized its greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels?

New York
Washington, D.C.
Toronto
Montreal

10. Which of the following was one of the objectives of Environment Canada when it held its fifteenth consecutive Voluntary Emissions Inspection Clinics in 2000?

To mark the introduction of Environmental Science in British Columbia universities
To make more funds available for air pollution research
To increase the awareness of the importance of vehicle maintenance
All of the above

11. The local climate of a city is almost always negatively affected by industrial and other human activity. This local climate is known as the:

Biosphere
Ecosphere
Microclimate
Zone of influence

12. The phenomenon in which temperatures in a city tend to be one or two degrees Celsius warmer than in the surrounding rural area is known as:

The urban heat island effect
Global warming
A temperature inversion
The albedo effect

13. Compared with a rural village, we could expect that a city might contribute relatively more to which of the following environmental problems?

Noise pollution
Ozone depletion
Light pollution
All of the above

14. Which of the following is NOT compatible with the idea of an environmentally friendly house, such as the Healthy House in Toronto?

Solar panels on the roof store energy for use later
Rainwater is collected, purified, used, and recycled
Wastewater from the dishwasher, washing machine, and toilets is filtered and purified before being discharged
The residents’ places of business are far from the home but are accessible by public transit, to ensure that industrial chemicals do not contaminate the living space

15. What do NO_x, CO, VOCs, and SO_x have in common?

They all cause global warming
You breathe them in as part of the photochemical smog in a typical city
They are major ingredients in a city’ s recipe for ozone depletion
They can be found in the typical treated wastewater produced by an urban centre

16. As the mayor of a large, Canadian city, you could reduce the weight of your municipality’ s solid waste the most by tackling which of the following items?

Paper and paperboard
Food waste
Plastic
Yard waste

17. Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts Green Program is an example of:

How the greening of business can be profitable
How a corporate environmental program can fail if not managed carefully
How environmental stewardship is impractical today because it is still too expensive
A Canadian hotel that produces the most waste per customer per day

18. Which of the following housing construction materials is cheap to buy, quite fire resistant, able to last virtually indefinitely, and so low-tech that few power tools are required?

The conventional R-2000 wooden stud home
The brick home
The field stone home
The straw-bale home

19. Which of the following statements is true:

Storm and sanitary sewer systems exist for all Canadian urban municipalities
Many coastal cities as well as those in the lower St. Lawrence River discharge wastewater directly into streams
Ontario does not require phosphate removal in sewage treatment
Most of Atlantic Canada has tertiary water treatment

20. Urban green space, or “ urban forests,” are important because:

Research has shown that treed landscapes contribute to the psychological well-being of people
Trees remove pollutants from the urban atmosphere
Trees can significantly increase the value of nearby property
All of the above