Deck 25: Population: The Ultimate Environmental Health

Question 1

The ozone layer protects the Earth's surface from what type of radiation?

A) Cosmic radiation
B) Ionizing radiation
C) Ultraviolet radiation
D) Natural radiation

Answer 1

C

Question 2

According to which organization, in 2015 about 11 percent of the world's population is chronically or acutely malnourished?

A) United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization
B) World Health Organization
C) United Nations Children's Fund
D) U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Once the carrying capacity is exceeded, the environment is degraded, and the carrying capacity is reduced.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A temperate zone become hotter, vector-borne diseases that now plague tropical regions will enlarge their territory, spreading even to industrialized countries.

Question 5

President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol soon after he was inaugurated.

Question 6

The removal of salt from seawater is fairly inexpensive and widely available.

Question 7

Based on current trends in water availability and engineering of dams, wars based on access to fresh water may come in the near future.

Question 8

Recent drought years in California have greatly reduced the amount of snow melt water available from the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Question 9

If agriculture were completely eliminated from California, the amount of fresh water available for other purposes would increase by 400%.

Question 10

One estimate places enough fresh water on Earth to support 15 billion people, if it were distributed correctly.

Question 11

Birth rates falling in response to falling death rates is a process known as ______________________.

Question 12

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, with the ever-increasing use of fossil fuels, the levels of _________________________ in the atmosphere have been rising.

Question 13

whats the terms to the appropriate description.
-Has yielded some concepts and insights that can be applied to human populations

Question 14

whats the terms to the appropriate description.
-Environmental pressures increase gradually as the population approaches carrying capacity

Question 15

whats the terms to the appropriate description.
-The number of organisms that can be supported in a given environment without degrading that environment

Question 16

whats the terms to the appropriate description.
-The population expands rapidly past the carrying capacity and then crashes

Question 17

whats the following terms to the appropriate description
-Best seller that repeated and expanded upon Malthus's warning of population growth was outpacing the food supply

Question 18

whats the following terms to the appropriate description
-Argued that many of Malthus's dire predictions have already begun to be realized

Question 19

whats the following terms to the appropriate description
-Authors argue that in order to prevent against the collapse of civilization, people need to recognize that we are all part of one family

Question 20

whats the following terms to the appropriate description
-Stabilization of the world's population is closely tied, argue the authors, to modernization and economic viability of the poorest countries

Question 21

Predictions about the Earth's carrying capacity have most often centered on which of the following?

A) Food
B) Water
C) Usable land
D) Epidemic disease

Question 22

Which of the following, released by microbial activity in the intestines of cattle and in paddy fields where rice is grown, also contributes to the greenhouse effect?

A) Carbon dioxide
B) Methane
C) Argon
D) Nitrogen

Question 23

All organisms tend to produce more offspring than would be needed to maintain a stable population.

Question 24

There is enough material in the study of population to form an independent science.

Question 25

Environmental pressures in nature tend to limit how many offspring survive.

Question 26

Malthus' initial dire warnings about the fate of humans, based on his extrapolation from information about other organisms, have been proven true.

Question 27

Some pro-growth economists have argued that Ehrlich is wrong and that human ingenuity will solve issues having to do with resource needs as the human population grows.

Question 28

Like Malthus, Ehrlich's predictions about human population and starvation have not been borne out by recent history.

Question 29

Human activity has changed the environment of the entire globe.

Question 30

Opposition to contraception by Roman Catholic and Muslim authorities, as well as the incendiary politics of abortion in the United States, prevented attempts at its use for limiting population growth.

Question 31

The J pattern of population growth is seen in some organisms, such as lemmings.

Question 32

Based on one UN estimate, the world's human population will be 15.6 billion by 2050.

Question 33

In the ____________________, the population expands rapidly past the carrying capacity and then crashes.

Question 34

The generally discussed principle is that global warming is due to the ____________________ in which the energy of sunlight is absorbed by carbon dioxide in the air and turned into heat rather than radiating back into outer space.

Question 35

Whats the appropriate statement of the agency?
-The number of children who die before reaching their fifth birthday declined by more than 45 percent between 1990 and 2010

Question 36

Whats the appropriate statement of the agency?
-The percentage of Africa's population living in cities is 40% and increasing at 1.0% per year

Question 37

Whats the appropriate statement of the agency?
-Stated in 2015 that about 11%of the world's population is chronically or acutely malnourished