Exam 22: Technology and the Global Environment

What term is used to reference the enormous variety of plant and animal species that are found on Earth?

What would the textbook suggest is the cause of the back-and-forth public opinion about the existence and dangers of global warming?

Discuss the suggestion that technological innovation and market forces will enable us to overcome environmental problems.

Genetic pollution refers to the health and ecological dangers that can result from artificially splicing genes together.

The greenhouse effect is the gradual increase in the world's day-to-day temperature.

What term does the textbook use to refer to precipitation that causes the destruction of various ecosystems?

What does the textbook mean when it says that environmental issues are contested phenomena?

What does the increased use of fossil fuels, especially in industry, cause?

Josh lives in a province in Canada where the Sydney Steel Company dumped tonnes of toxic waste for a century. Which province does he live in?

What is the social distribution of environmental risk?

Which of the following places would be the most likely location for a new water-purification site?

Because of the need to bioengineer and use biotechnology to make good food for everyone, large multinational companies share their patents and information.

Which of the following may allow future farmers to grow crops that are entirely disease resistant?

According to the textbook, why do reporters flock to mobile home parks when small tornadoes strike a geographic region?

According to Ulrich Beck, which of the following is more worrisome than the fact that technologies are likely to fail sometimes?

Monique is a theoretical mathematician at a large university. Which of the following is most likely to motivate her research work at the university?

According to Sheldon Ungar, people are prepared to make significant personal sacrifices on behalf of the environment when they come face to face with which of the following?

When looking at the graph showing surface air temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, which of the following best describes the pattern?

The advantaged in a society often consciously put the disadvantaged in harm's way to avoid risk themselves.

The anti-nuclear movement is an example of a movement that forced changes in corporate and government policies. What is demonstrated by the success of this movement?