Deck 15: How Is Our Understanding of the Environment Influenced by Our Culture

Question 1

Explain some of the ways the environment influences an individual's body, mind, and spirit.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Define ecofeminism as it was explained in the text.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Discuss some environmentalists' objections to terms such as "mother earth" and "earth mother."

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Briefly explain how tourism has and can negatively affect the environment.

Question 5

Making sure a community is "fire-safe" as opposed to "senseless destruction of life-sustaining habitats" are examples of the _____________ function of language.

Question 6

Environmental communication is often a place of _________ .

Question 7

Interest in protecting or conserving ____________ are one aspect of ecotourism.

Question 8

Many cultural communities believe that:

A) Gender is only tangentially to social theory.
B) That the monolithic force perspective is true in some communities , but not in others.
C) Humans communicate with nature and that nature communicates with humans.
D) Curandera shows that nature controls human though.

Question 9

Silent Spring was a book published in the 1960s that described:

A) The beauty of natural underground spring water
B) The importance of silence in natural settings
C) What kind of natural energy to use to best protect the environment
D) The hazards of agricultural pesticides, specifically DDT

Question 10

One example of international negotiations that affect the environment concerns reduction of each country's ______________:

A) Carbon output
B) Exports
C) Environmental Protection Agencies
D) Tax spending

Question 11

The Hidden Life of Trees suggests that trees are:

A) Causes of water shortages
B) Social beings
C) Protected by Environmental Protection Agencies
D) Often a target of reduced tax spending

Question 12

Ecotourism differs from conventional tourism through encouragement of

A) Social responsibility
B) Camping in tents
C) Maintaining distance from local peoples
D) Visiting exotic locations

Question 13

An example of the pragmatic function of environmental communication would be when car manufacturers buy ads using symbolic resources to oppose higher fuel standards.

Question 14

Anthropomorphizing means to attribute human qualities to other-than-humans.

Question 15

DDT was initially used by the military as a type of chemical weapon