1. According to animal rights advocates such as Peter Singer, this feature is relevant in attributing moral status to entities other than human beings.
A. Sentience
B. Consciousness
C. Responsiveness
D. Conscience
2. This view holds that the environment ought to receive moral consideration only insofar as it relates to human beings.
A. humanism
B. Kantian ethics
C. anthropocentrism
D. species non-egalitarianism
3. According to ecological individualism, it would be morally justifiable to allow hunters to kill some deer to insure the wellbeing of an ecosystem.
A. True, because ecological individualism is concerned with maintaining the wellbeing of individual ecosystems
B. True, because ecological individualism holds that individual animals are expendable as long as it is for the good of a larger whole
C. False, because ecological individualism holds that individual creatures, such as an individual deer, have moral status
D. False, because ecological individualism holds that individual creatures do not have moral status
4. What type of ethics is environmental ethics?
A. theoretical
B. ancillary
C. technological
D. applied