Exam 15: Populations, Cities, and the Environment

What sort of pollution is responsible for global warming?

Which of the following net migration rates would indicate that an equal number of people entered and left a country in the same year?

According to law enforcement, you should request assistance from an individual, even a stranger, if you are in trouble or injured, rather than yelling for help in general or appealing to a group. This strategy would help to defeat

Which theoretical approach to reducing urban sprawl would assert that open land should be redefined as a scarce resource and that urban areas should be redefined as valuable spaces?

The federal government plans to store nuclear waste under a mountain in Nevada, but many people who live in Nevada are trying their best to have it housed elsewhere. This is a classic example of

The globe will have two billion more people living on it by the year 2050, according to the United Nations estimates. At that point, the population may actually shrink because, although life expectancy may continue to rise, the average number of children each person gives birth to is poised to drop below 2.1. What demographic variable might make the global population drop?

What is environmental justice?

Which sociological term best fits the original reporting of Kitty Genovese's murder and the response of her neighbors?

According to the text, which of the following is one of the four major eras of environmental activism?

An environmentalist named Aldo Leopold believed that we need to develop a "land ethic" that "changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it." What sort of attitude is Leopold trying to move our society away from?

In the summer of 2002, the Los Angeles Times ran a story about a couple in downtown Los Angeles who watched a coyote jump a three-foot fence and eat their pet Chihuahua, Zu-Zu. Writing about this event, Jenny Price says: When you bring domestic dogs into a landscape of native animals, then the resident carnivores are likely to see the pets as prey. When you use and change a landscape, then the place will respond. Nature is never passive. What attitude toward nature does Jenny Price have? Using terminology from the text, why do you think she responds in this way? Explain your answer.

The once sleepy suburb of San Jose became a center of high-tech industry during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. San Jose has its own centers of employment and commerce. San Jose is an example of what?

Identify the difference between environmental justice and environmental racism.

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests are an example of a movement that is pursuing environmental justice.

An industry dumps waste in an area adjacent to where members of racial and ethnic minorities reside. What is this practice called?

Environmental racism occurs when

An estimate of the land and water area that is required to produce all of the goods that an individual consumes and all of the waste that they generate is called

________ is the study of the size, composition, distribution, and change in a human population.

To what are environmental sociologists referring when they use the term "environment"?

Which analytic subfield within the sociology of the environment do you think best explains how the greenhouse effect came into being? Justify your answer.