Exam 9: Population, environment, Climate Change

The sudden surge in global population is expected to end by:

What is now central to the goals of many international organizations,national institutions,and transnational corporations?

Who wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree?

How high do demographers expect the population to be when it peaks and in what year?

What rare-earth element is essential in the production of permanent magnets for hybrid-vehicle motors?

Thanks to the relatively mild and stable temperatures over the last how many years does Robert Correll refer to the period as a "sweet spot?"

"Alternative energy" generally is considered to provide substitutes for what current modes of energy?

What region of the world has the highest percentage of chronically hungry people at 34 percent?

The Board of Sustainable Development at what US institution began a focus on a 50-year transition to sustainable technology in 1995?

Carbon dioxide,nitrogen oxide and methane are examples of what?

Who asked for a "one-armed scientist" to offer testimony concerning clean-air legislation?

What refers to the interconnected natural responses of the Earth to restabilize living and physical systems when perturbed beyond normal bounds?

Where is most carbon dioxide located on Mars?

What is the main source of the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

How many nuclear power plants are active around the world today?

What organization helped spearhead the sustainable development movement in the 1980s?

What is the ambient average temperature on Earth?

Which tree does Robert W.Kates focus on in his article in this volume?

How high are current estimates for people alive who are chronically hungry?

What tree did a 1992 report say was probably unmatched in its yield of "strange and varied products?"