Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment Quiz

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What does the term 'strategic environmental assessment' (SEA) primarily apply to?

  • Environmental management tools
  • Policies, plans, and programmes proposed by organs of state (correct)
  • Environmental consequences of actual projects
  • Rules of administrative procedure

What is the primary purpose of environmental impact assessment (EIA)?

  • To facilitate public participation in project approval
  • To document administrative procedures for project approval
  • To ensure decision-makers consider environmental impacts when deciding on a project (correct)
  • To conduct judicial reviews of environmental assessments

What may environmental assessments be governed by, regarding public participation and decision-making documentation?

  • International regulations
  • Organizational policies
  • Rules of administrative procedure (correct)
  • Environmental impact reports

What forms a part of project approval and decision-making?

<p>Environmental management (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who defines an environmental impact assessment as the assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects?

<p>International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary role of animals in an ecosystem?

<p>Influencing the movement of matter and energy through the system (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What releases carbon back to the atmosphere and facilitates nutrient cycling in an ecosystem?

<p>Decomposers (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which factor controls the overall structure of an ecosystem?

<p>Climate (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary way energy enters an ecosystem?

<p>Photosynthesis (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do biotic and abiotic components in an ecosystem link together through?

<p>Nutrient cycles and energy flows (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary role of animals in an ecosystem?

<p>Influencing the movement of matter and energy through the system (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main source of energy entering an ecosystem?

<p>Photosynthesis (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary function of decomposers in an ecosystem?

<p>Releasing carbon back to the atmosphere and facilitating nutrient cycling (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What controls the overall structure of an ecosystem?

<p>External factors such as climate, parent material, and topography (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the process by which energy from the sun is converted into plant tissue?

<p>Photosynthesis (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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