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Chapter 1: Environmental Problems and Society
Multiple Choice


1. Which of the following terms best describes the study of community in the largest
possible sense?

A. social ecology
B. environmental sociology
C. ecological dialogue
D. environmental justice
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The interactions and interrelations of people, animals, land, water, and air form a kind
of mutuality of consequence that is referred to as ______.
A. environmental justice
B. ecological dialogue
C. environmental sociology
D. social ecology
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy

3. That climate change is a dangerous consequence of how we currently organize the
economic side of social life best aligns with which of the following views?
A. idealist
B. constructionist
C. materialist
D. realist
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium

4. According to the text, the mutual and unfinalizable interrelationship of what we see
and feel with what we believe is best described as the ______.
A. social constitution of daily life
B. beauty of ecology

,C. ecological dialogue
D. environmental goods and bads
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Ecology of Dialogue
Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The flourishing of mutual aid through communal ties within and across life forms is
referred to as ______.
A. sustainability
B. environmental justice
C. beauty of ecology
D. environmental sociology
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Which of the following axes of environmental justice concerns what are often called
issues of “sustainability?”
A. justice across time
B. justice across social space
C. justice across species
D. justice across humans
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The temporal myopia referred to as contempocentrism is associated with which axis
of environmental justice?
A. justice across humans
B. justice across social space
C. justice across species
D. justice across time
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Medium

8. According to scientists, the blame for global climate change is mostly attributed to
which of the following?
A. groundwater depletion
B. carbon dioxide emission from fossil fuel use
C. photochemical smog
D. fine particulates

,Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Global Climate Change
Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Which greenhouse gas amounts to about half of the other “forcings?”
A. methane
B. nitrous oxide
C. chlorofluorocarbons
D. black carbon
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Global Climate Change
Difficulty Level: Easy

10. According to the text, the majority of the world’s energy supply comes from which
source?
A. coal
B. oil
C. nuclear
D. solar
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Energy
Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The method of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing is associated with the production of
which fossil fuel?
A. coal
B. nuclear
C. wind
D. oil and gas
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Fossil Fuels
Difficulty Level: Medium

12. What environmental problem did the “Montreal Protocol” seek to address?
A. a reduction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) production
B. a moratorium on the use of high sulfur coal implicated in acid rain
C. the need for the United States to establish an Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)
D. due process procedures for litigants in environment justice lawsuits
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Ozone “Hole”

, Difficulty Level: Medium

13. What function does the upper atmosphere ozone layer serve?
A. It protects against the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation.
B. It traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere leading to the greenhouse effect.
C. It provides a rich source of CFC used as a refrigerant to fuel air conditioning units.
D. It is the source of oxygen needed to breathe.
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Ozone “Hole”
Difficulty Level: Medium

14. The World Bank defines “extreme” poverty as living on ______ a day or less in
terms of local purchasing power.
A. US$1.90
B. US$2.35
C. US$3.50
D. US$5.90
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Income Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Food insecurity is often referenced in relation to which type of inequality?
A. income
B. wealth
C. consumption
D. health
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Consumption Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Aldo Leopold, one of the most important figures in the history of the environmental
movement, directed attention to which word?
A. stability
B. beauty
C. romantic
D. intimacy
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Environmental Justice Across Species
Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Which of the following is considered to be the main cause of the loss of birds?
A. pesticides and agricultural intensification

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