Exam 15: Populations, Cities, and the Environment

What environmental activist is credited with organizing the first Earth Day?

Flint, Michigan is a majority African American city dealing with contaminated water. Flint, Michigan has been pointed to as an example of

Garrett Hardin believes that "a 'just' sharing of the world's wealth among all the inhabitants, without coercive control of individual reproduction, would result in a continual, exponential growth of the human population" and much more suffering. This means Hardin is a

Los Angeles is infamous for its air pollution and smog, but there are many parts of Los Angeles where the air is quite nice, especially in the mountains and by the sea. However, the people who live in these places are disproportionately white, while the people who live in the places with the worst air quality are disproportionately likely to be racial and ethnic minorities. This is an example of

Which of the following facts might a sociologist be interested in if they are studying the problems associated with resource depletion when investigating the way our society uses paper?

In which type of community would Georg Simmel believe individuals are LEAST likely to have friendly relationships with their neighbors?

Factories that produce noxious levels of pollution and toxic waste dumps are often located near areas where minorities and the poor reside. Which of the following terms could be used to describe this situation?

Ecologist Aldo Leopold wrote about his home state of Wisconsin in The Sand County Almanac. In one moving section, he described a triangular cemetery founded in the nineteenth century that, because of its unusual shape, contained a tiny patch of prairie that was unmowed and undisturbed. Every year, Leopold would watch a single silphium plant bloom there sometime in July. It was the only one he had found in that part of the state. He used this example to discuss the many plants native to the prairie that have been replaced by a few commercial plants grown by farmers. Leopold is observing a change in

What is the net migration rate?

The Environmental Defense Fund hires scientists, economists, and lawyers to lobby the government and to educate the public about the environmental consequences of modern life. They brag that they had a part in passing important elements of the Clean Air Act, California's emissions rules, and a treaty to phase out CFCs. With what era of the environmental movement is this sort of organization MOST commonly associated?

Before the United States invaded Iraq, about 5.5 people out of every thousand would die each year, according to a controversial study published in the British medical journal The Lancet. After the invasion, that number rose to over 13. This study was attempting to measure

A sociologist who examines how cities are organized or the migration of human populations is studying

The city of Mumbai, India has 14,000,000 people, which makes it the second-largest city in the world. In addition, the city handles the majority of India's maritime commerce. These facts help to explain why Mumbai would be called a(n)

What are the two major areas that sociologists study when they consider the environment as a social problem? How does the ecological footprint exemplify this?

Earth First describes itself as a global organization, but its website contains links to local chapters in Montreal, the Netherlands, and Humboldt and Santa Cruz, California. What does this suggest about the organization?

The Flint, Michigan water crisis involved dangerously high levels of nitrogen.