Question 1

Parasitism is not classified as a symbiotic relationship.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

According to the New Ecological Paradigm,humans live in a finite biophysical environment that imposes potent restraints on human behaviors.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

According to the text,worldviews and paradigms are best classified as part of:

Accepted Answer

A) culture. 
B) social structure. 
C) material infrastructure. 
D) cultural substrate.

Question 4

Neoclassical economists see human-environment problems in terms of market failures and resource allocation problems.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Identify and discuss the components of an ecosystem.Be sure to give examples.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and discuss the components of an...

Question 6

Emissions trading schemes have not had much impact on producers of pollution in the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Simple and homogenous societies with powerful cultural rules are characterized by _________ solidarity.

Accepted Answer

A) mechanical 
B) organic 
C) manifest 
D) latent

Question 8

Describe ecosystem change and human-environment interaction.Be sure to give examples.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Describe ecosystem change and human-environment interaction.Be sure...

Question 9

_________ is the ultimate source of the earth's energy.

Accepted Answer

A) Solar radiation 
B) The biosphere 
C) Carbon 
D) The lithosphere

Question 10

Money became the most important material resource in the industrial society.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

In sociology,functionalist theories are most concerned with:

Accepted Answer

A) ideologies and the social construction of reality 
B) the struggle for scarce resources 
C) systems and subsystems 
D) a and b

Question 12

Exchanges of reciprocity produce mutually beneficial relationships in a social system.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

While industrialization brought about a new class structure,population growth was kept in check by frequent,large-scale outbreaks of disease.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

In the neoclassical economists' view,the economy contains the ecosystem as resources bases and pollution sinks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Discuss Allan Schnaiberg's conflict theory of human-environment interaction.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Discuss Allan Schnaiberg's conflict theory of human-environment...

Question 16

The concepts of ecosystem and environment can be used interchangeably.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

_________ economics sees the economy as a growing,dependent subsystem of a materially closed,finite ecosphere.

Accepted Answer

A) Classical economics 
B) Neoclassical economics 
C) Ecological economics 
D) Postmodern economics

Question 18

A key feature of the Dominant Western Worldview is the value it places on nature for its own sake.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

_________ claimed that the unseen hand of the marketplace would produce the best economic and social outcomes.

Accepted Answer

A) David Ricardo 
B) Adam Smith 
C) Thomas Malthus 
D) Karl Marx

Question 20

As discussed in the text,Durkheim thought that the struggle for scarce resources would culminate in:

Accepted Answer

A) the eventual breakdown and collapse of industrial society. 
B) mass starvation. 
C) a more complex division of labor. 
D) a and b

Exam 1: Environment, human Systems, and Social Science

Parasitism is not classified as a symbiotic relationship.

According to the New Ecological Paradigm,humans live in a finite biophysical environment that imposes potent restraints on human behaviors.

According to the text,worldviews and paradigms are best classified as part of:

Neoclassical economists see human-environment problems in terms of market failures and resource allocation problems.

Identify and discuss the components of an ecosystem.Be sure to give examples.

Emissions trading schemes have not had much impact on producers of pollution in the United States.

Simple and homogenous societies with powerful cultural rules are characterized by _________ solidarity.

Describe ecosystem change and human-environment interaction.Be sure to give examples.

_________ is the ultimate source of the earth's energy.

Money became the most important material resource in the industrial society.

In sociology,functionalist theories are most concerned with:

Exchanges of reciprocity produce mutually beneficial relationships in a social system.

While industrialization brought about a new class structure,population growth was kept in check by frequent,large-scale outbreaks of disease.

In the neoclassical economists' view,the economy contains the ecosystem as resources bases and pollution sinks.

Discuss Allan Schnaiberg's conflict theory of human-environment interaction.

The concepts of ecosystem and environment can be used interchangeably.

_________ economics sees the economy as a growing,dependent subsystem of a materially closed,finite ecosphere.

A key feature of the Dominant Western Worldview is the value it places on nature for its own sake.

_________ claimed that the unseen hand of the marketplace would produce the best economic and social outcomes.

As discussed in the text,Durkheim thought that the struggle for scarce resources would culminate in: