MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1)Conditions that threaten the world's poor
include all of the following except 1) _______
A)malnourishment results in low levels of
energy.
B)protein deficiency often leaves infants
with permanent brain damage.
C)vitamin deficiencies make people more
susceptible to infections diseases.
D)consumption of complex carbohydrates and
simple proteins often lead to obesity among the poor.
2)The social forces that profoundly disturb
the earth's ecosystem include all the following except 2) _______
A)increases in human population.
B)improved use of modern technology.
C)commitment to economic growth.
D)growing inequality in income between the
rich and poor.
3)Major obstacles to the U.S. adopting a
comprehensive plan to curb pollution include 3) _______
A)provisions that allow individuals to do
with their land as they choose.
B)individual voluntary commitments to solve
the problem.
C)pursuit of the common good.
D)polluters' relationships to our federal
system of government.
4)According to the text, effective authoritarian
alternatives to the business-oriented plan for solving our environmental crisis should include 4) _______
A)government must operate on the premise
that pollution is a crime against society.
B)government must not tolerate pollution
and polluters.
C)neither A nor B
D)both A and B
5)According to the text, the pro-business
approach of the current Bush administration will likely allow the energy industry to 5) _______
A)build more nuclear plants.
B)burn more coal.
C)produce more oil and gas in environmentally
fragile areas.
D)All of the above are true.
6)Which one of the following is not a major
source of water pollution? 6) _______
A)industries B) cities
C)farms D) naturally grown fish
7)Which one of the following is a major
contributor to the deforestation of tropical rainforests? 7) _______
A)lumber and mining companies
B)local government
C)multi-national corporations
D)All of the above are major contributors.
8)Which of the following are not major contributors
to the greenhouse effect? 8) _______
A)destruction of the tropical rain forests
B)burning of natural fossil fuels
C)refrigerants
D)plant decomposition
9)Which of the following will likely to
be necessary if we are to deal with our environmental problems? 9) _______
A)put the needs of society over those of
individuals
B)control people's freedom to use land and
order life as they please
C)limit the expansion of quickly outdated
and disposable technology
D)All of the above are true.
10)A rational plan to conserve the world's
energy would include all of the following except 10) ______
A)voluntary ban on outdoor lighting.
B)mandatory rationing.
C)eliminating policies that reduce rates
for energy as the volume consumed increases.
D)limiting fuel consumption in new cars.
11)The structural sources of environmental
problems include all of the following except 11) ______
A)influence of powerful interest groups.
B)capitalism.
C)poverty.
D)environmental classism.
12)Beginning in the 1960s, when the U.S.
and the United Nations began funding family planning programs in less developed countries, all of the following have happened
except 12) ______
A)an increase in the number of women using
contraception.
B)a decline in the number of children born
in less developed nations.
C)an increase in the relative poverty rate
in less developed nations.
D)a decrease in annual population growth.
13)The saying "what goes around, comes around,"
applies to which possible area(s) of involvement between the U.S. and other countries? 13) ______
A)imports of produce B) arms sales
C)both A and B D) none of the above
14)Which of the following does not contribute
to the problem of food shortages in the Third World? 14) ______
A)environmental problems such as overgrazing,
air pollution and toxic chemicals
B)population growth in countries that are
already poor
C)shrinkage of productive land
D)low rates of population growth
15)All of the following result from the
disparate spending in developing countries on military goods over social service except 15) ______
A)important natural resources are over-exploited
in the Third World to help pay off debts.
B)massive debts mean decreasing money that
could have been spent on education.
C)previously independent self-governing
political processes must now include outside powers.
D)people become less dependent on social
services and become more self-sufficient.
16)According to the text, wealthy nations
should provide aid to developing nations with all the following provisions except 16) ______
A)that governments receiving the aid have
sensible and humane plans for using the new resources.
B)that aid reaches the intended targets
and not the well-off elite.
C)that goods purchased with the new resources
be purchased from American companies.
D)that it be used for truly humanitarian
purposes.
17)All of the following are examples of
corporate dumping in the Third World except 17) ______
A)shipping toxic wastes there.
B)importing products from there that are
also produced here.
C)selling banned products there.
D)marketing untested products there.
18)The slowing of world population growth
will result from underdeveloped nations undergoing all the following except 18) ______
A)changes in the roles of women.
B)a return of both women and men to their
traditional roles
C)access to family planning and effective
methods of birth control.
D)a demographic transition.
19)Among the reasons Third World nations
are underdeveloped is 19) ______
A)their economic domination by developed
nations in the postcolonial era.
B)geography, climate, and lack of arable
land and minerals.
C)a history of continuous warfare.
D)All of the above are true.
20)Third World countries tend to have all
of the following except 20) ______
A)high debt to developed countries.
B)a wide gap between rich and poor with
virtually no middle class.
C)high fertility rates.
D)knowledge that the potentially dangerous
products they receive from developed countries may be hazardous.