Question 1

What is the shift of large segments of the population away from the urban core and toward the edges of cities called?

Accepted Answer

A)   social ecology
B)   urban deforestation
C)   civil inattention
D)   suburbanization D

Question 2

According to Georg Simmel, city dwellers relate to one another

Accepted Answer

A)   through restrictive constraints on personal behavior.
B)   through family connections.
C)   in terms of class-based loyalties.
D)   in objective and instrumental terms. D

Question 3

List one of the four major factors that New Malthusians credit with influencing reproductive lives in societies that promote large families.

Accepted Answer

One of the four major factors that New Malthusians credit with influencing reproductive lives in societies that promote large families is the cultural or religious belief systems that value high fertility. In many societies, cultural norms and religious teachings encourage large families, often associating them with increased social status, economic benefits, or compliance with religious doctrines. These beliefs can strongly influence individual and collective decisions about family size and reproductive behavior, leading to a preference for larger families.

Question 4

How do people with an anthropocentric relationship with the environment perceive nature?

Accepted Answer

A)   as something to be preserved
B)   as a place to find spiritual truth
C)   as something to be conquered
D)   as something to be studied and examined before it is tainted by human activity

Question 5

North Dakota has experienced one of the highest population growth rates in the United States in the recent past due to an oil boom. Which demographic variable explains this?

Accepted Answer

A)   fertility
B)   migration
C)   mortality
D)   life span

Question 6

Huge numbers of dispossessed U.S. farmers left places like Oklahoma and moved to California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)   mortality.
B)   internal colonization.
C)   internal migration.
D)   emigration.

Question 7

In the past seventy years, the Earth's population has

Accepted Answer

A)   shrunk slightly.
B)   peaked around twenty-five years ago and has been shrinking ever since.
C)   increased by around 25 percent.
D)   nearly tripled.

Question 8

________ is one of the categories of urbanites identified by Herbert Gans in his ethnography Urban Villagers.

Accepted Answer

A)   Bohemians
B)   Cosmopolites
C)   Roma
D)   The dispossessed

Question 9

The study of human populations and their impact on the natural world is called

Accepted Answer

A)   the new ecological paradigm.
B)   biodiversity.
C)   conservationism.
D)   radical environmentalism.

Question 10

________ contributed to the rapid population growth in Europe around the time of Thomas Malthus in the eighteenth century.

Accepted Answer

A)   The potato
B)   Penicillin
C)   The automobile
D)   Better methods of contraception

Question 11

How is the new ecological paradigm different from the attitudes of human exceptionalism that preceded it?

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

Which of the following is an example of a way to collect demographic data?

Accepted Answer

A)   voluntary simplicity and recycling
B)   organizing environmental activist groups to engage in direct actions
C)   the U.S. Census Bureau sending out surveys
D)   the Malthusian theorem

Question 13

According to demographers, Milwaukee is a ________ because it has over 500,000 inhabitants.

Accepted Answer

A)   megacity
B)   global city
C)   metropolis
D)   metropolitan statistical area (MS
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Question 14

The Environmental Protection Agency claims that the United States has one of the safest supplies of drinking water in the world, but

Accepted Answer

A)   10 percent of U.S. water systems do not meet EPA standards.
B)   the EPA has covered up systematic contamination of the water supply.
C)   most Americans still complain of waterborne disease.
D)   most of the U.S. water supply comes from desalinization plants.

Question 15

During the rise of suburbanization in the 1950s and 1960s, ________ were MOST likely to move away from the urban core to the suburbs.

Accepted Answer

A)   Single mothers
B)   Senior citizens
C)   Racial and ethnic minorities
D)   Whites

Question 16

The attempt to reconcile global economic growth with environmental protection is called

Accepted Answer

A)   biodiversity.
B)   environmental integrity.
C)   social demographics.
D)   sustainability.

Question 17

What is a person reducing if they start taking public transportation and riding a bicycle?

Accepted Answer

A)   anthropocentrism
B)   white flight
C)   gentrification
D)   ecological footprint

Question 18

Think about the town in which you are currently living. What changes could be made to make it more smart-growth friendly?

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

Oxygen is an example of a renewable resource, as it is a natural resource that can be replenished by plants and trees.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Modern economies require constant growth, and with that growth comes an ever-increasing need for resources called

Accepted Answer

A)   edge cities.
B)   economic modernization.
C)   the treadmill of production.
D)   the new ecological paradigm.

Exam 15: Populations, Cities, and the Environment