Sustainable systems (check all that apply) yu yu yu yu yu
Select one or more: yu yu yu
a. Allow future systems to flourish
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b. Can be human
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c. Can be natural
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d. Don't change over time - correct Answers ✔✔ -a,b,c: Can be human, can be natural,
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allow future systems to fourish
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What is meant by "sustainable development"? - correct Answers ✔✔ -Development that
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meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
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meet their own needs
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In the IPAT equation the environmental impact (I) of human activity is modeled to
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increase when the following increases:
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Select all that apply: yu yu yu
a. Technology
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b. Transportation
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c. Attitude
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d. Time yu
e. Pollution
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f. Air Quality
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g. Parameter
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h. Affluence
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i. Population - correct Answers ✔✔ -Correct answers include:
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technology, affluence, population yu yu
According to this lecture, when is an IPAT analysis most likely to fail? - correct Answers
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✔✔ -When thinking about the future
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Cells in a petri dish grow fastest when (s-shaped growth pattern):
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Select one: yu
a. Close to carrying capacity
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b. Just above carrying capacity
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c. Far from carrying capacity - correct Answers ✔✔ -far from carrying capacity
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According to the lecture, what happens to a system where population exceeds the
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carrying capacity?
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Select one: yu
, a. The population slowly falls
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b. The population stops growing
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c. The population drops below carrying capacity
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d. The population slowly returns to carrying capacity - correct Answers ✔✔ -The
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population drops below carrying capacity
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What occurs at a Malthusian "point of crisis"?
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Select one: yu
a. starvation: there is not enough food for the entire population
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b. loss of total wealth: the population does not produce as much as beforeloss of total
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wealth: the population does not produce as much as before
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c. extinction: the population dies out
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d. explosion in population: growth rates become exponential
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e. drop in efficiency: each individual in the population becomes less efficient - correct
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Answers ✔✔ -starvation: there is not enough food for the entire population
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Which of the following most accurately describes a Neo-Malthusian attitude. Select one:
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a. Arguing that Malthusian ideas have been discredited
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b. Observing that the modern world population is at the highest level ever
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c. Wishing that agricultural production was more efficient
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d. Believing that population growth is unsustainable today
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e. Thinking that population growth was unsustainable in the past - correct Answers ✔✔ -
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Believing that population growth is unsustainable today
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If there are about as many one year olds as 40 years olds in a population, this suggests
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that
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Select one: yu
a. birth rates have been decreasing for decades
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b. birth rates have been stable for decades
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c. birth rates have been increasing for decades
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d. life expectancy has been decreasing for decades
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e. life expectancy has been stable for decades - correct Answers ✔✔ -b. Birth rates have
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been stable for decades
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Most of the population growth over the 20th century has primarily occurred in:
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a. primarily occurred in less-developed countries
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b. primarily occurred in more-developed countries
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c. approximately occurred almost equally in more- and less-developed countries - correct
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Answers ✔✔ -a. primarily occurred in less-developed countries
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The average world life-expectancy is currently
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Select one: yu
a. getting shorter in most places
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b. stable in most places
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c. getting longer in most places
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d. getting shorter in developing countries but longer in developed countries
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