Chapter 3 Tourism Impacts on The Environment

Question 1

represents a long-term change

Answer 1

impact

Question 2

caused by the imbalance between tourists’ waste generation and the nature’s capacity to break them down.

Answer 2

impact

Question 3

infrastructure could impact the environment through improper siting

Answer 3

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1995)

Question 4

could impact the environment through improper siting

Answer 4

infrastructure

Question 5

can destroy threatened species and unique features, such as hot spings.

Answer 5

infrastructure

Question 6

disrupt animal territories, their movements migration patterns

Answer 6

infrastructure

Question 7

packed earth impedes regular sea currents and cause accretion of sand, rocks, and other sea materials on one side of the pier and erosion on the other

Answer 7

Piers

Question 8

can lead to increased water run-offs

Answer 8

Concreting

Question 9

instead of getting absorbed by the soil and being stored in the roots of trees and underground aquifers, storm water turns into destructive floods

Answer 9

USEPA 1995

Question 10

prevented is the imposition of guidelines

Answer 10

Negative impacts

Question 11

Examples of such guidelines concern…

Answer 11

building height limit, beach setback, building materials, and architectural design.

Question 12

effect on wildlife and plants, environmetal; quality, topography, and even climate change.

Answer 12

tourism development

Question 13

identified impacts of tourism on the physical environment to be the disruption of breeding habits of animals

Answer 13

Hunter and Green (1996)