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Multiple Choice questions



 This activity contains 25 questions.

Question 1.
The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a year is known as ____________.

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Question 2.
The nation with a "one family-one child" is ____________.


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Question 3.
Which of the following statements is least accurate as they relate to life expectancy?

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Question 4.

Papito paid the Mexican Mafia the equivalent of 10,000 American dollars to smuggle his family into the United States. Papito and his wife work as farm laborers in Texas and his children attend public schools in San Antonio. Based on this information, which of the following labels best applies to Papito and his family at this time?

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Question 5.
What is the correlation between rapid population growth and human suffering?


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Question 6.
According to Thomas Malthus, population increases ____________ while food supply increases ____________.


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Question 7.
Excessive quantities of carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere, which reflect heat back onto the earth's surface is called _____________.


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Question 8.
In demographic transition theory a reduction in the birth rate combined with a reduction in the death rate is characteristic of the stage called ____________.

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Question 9.
The dramatic increases in agricultural production that have been made possible by high yield "miracle crops" are called the ____________.


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Question 10.
The nation whose government is promoting larger families because of an aging population and low fertility rate is ____________.

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Question 11.
Immigrant bashing was highest in the United States after which of the following dates?


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Question 12.
The belief that a disproportionate number of hazardous facilities are placed in areas populated by poor and minority people is called _____________.

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Question 13.
The area of sociology that covers the size, composition, and distribution of populations is called ____________.


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Question 14.
All the populations of plants and animal species that live and interact in a given area at a particular time, as well as the chemical and physical factors that make up the non-living environment are called a[n] _____________.

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Question 15.
Removing natural resources from the environment and adding to environmental problems through pollution are major factors in a process called _____________.

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Question 16.
Valuable, practical services that help to preserve ecosystems performed by nature are called ____________.

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Question 17.
The two compounds that acid rain contains that are most damaging to the environment are ____________ and ____________.

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Question 18.
The device on an automobile that filters harmful pollutants out of the exhaust before it enters the air is a[n] ____________.

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Question 19.
The only gas in the atmosphere that can absorb the sun's dangerous ultraviolet radiation is ____________.

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Question 20.
Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Of this amount, approximately _____ percent of it is suitable for human use.


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Question 21.
The largest amount of usable water found on earth is used for ____________.

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Question 22.
Societies that throw away large quantities of paper, plastic, metal and other materials are called _____________.


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Question 23.
An anthropocentric world view as one cause of environmental problems is most aligned with which of the following perspectives?


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Question 24.
What did Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, the Love Canal, and Bhopal, India all have in common?


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Question 25.
The two early conflict theorists who refuted the Malthusian Theory because they recognized that farming could match the food supply needs were ____________ and ____________.

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