Chapter.11 Climate Change, Population, and Exam Questions 1e

Chapter 11

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is false about climate change?
   1. Industrialized countries have contributed most to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
   2. Developing nations, where most of the world’s people live, that will suffer the worst effects, of climate change.
   3. Developing countries are more responsible than industrialized nations for the buildup of greenhouse gases.
   4. All of the above
   5. None of the above.
2. Which of these models is used to project greenhouse emissions into the future?
   1. I-PAT
   2. Kaya Identity
   3. STIRPAT
   4. All of the above
   5. None of the above
3. Population dynamics are important in climate change dynamics because
   1. Population projections provide information about the size and composition of the future populations, which are important for policy development and program planning.
   2. The link between population dynamics and socio-economic development is important for adaptation.
   3. There are links between adaptation and other demographic dynamics such as age structure, urbanization, migration and fertility.
   4. All of the above.
   5. None of the above
4. Promising Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) programs have operated in which of the following countries?
   1. Nepal
   2. Philippines
   3. Ethiopia
   4. Cambodia
   5. All of the above
5. Building seawalls can be a strategy for
   1. Climate change mitigation
   2. Climate change adaptation
   3. Reproductive health programming.
   4. PHE
   5. None of the above.
6. Which of the following demographic variables affect energy consumption?
   1. urban-rural residence
   2. age structure
   3. household size
   4. All of the above.
   5. None of the above.
7. If world population were to follow the low UN population projection rather than the medium variant,
   1. Worldwide carbon emissions would be reduced by 15% in 2050.
   2. Worldwide carbon emissions would be reduced by 40% in 2100.
   3. Climate change mitigation would occur.
   4. All of the above.
   5. None of the above.
8. IPCC is an abbreviation for
   1. Interplanetary Coordinating Council
   2. Indian Policy toward Climate Change
   3. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
   4. International Policies Toward Climate Change
   5. None of the above.

True/False Questions

1. T F The IPCC is convinced that climate change is occurring and that it is largely caused by human activities.
2. T F Climate change adaptation is a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.
3. T F Studies have shown that girls education is a cost-effective carbon abatement strategy.
4. T F Climate change mitigation is a human interventions to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.
5. T F Globally, all population growth over the first half of the 21^st century will be in urban areas.
6. T F If all unmet family planning need were met, climate change resilence would be decrease.
7. T F Development policies and population policies are increasingly acknowledging climate change.
8. T F For the most part, population and reproductive health have been ignored by climate change policies.
9. T F Earth’s 13 hottest years have all occurred since 1998.
10. T F Developing countries will be building the equivalent of a city of a million people every five days from now to 2050.
11. T F In communities experiencing climate change effects, people have a difficult time understanding the PHE linkages.
12. T F Countries that have been designated as population and climate change hotspots have a lower growth rate than the global average.
13. T F Climate change has no effect on reproductive health.
14. T F The 26 countries designated as population and climate change hotspots have population growth rates higher than the global average.
15. T F Worldwide, census data is more widely available at the local level for planning than at the national level.
16. T F Population dynamics are not being adequately factored into programs to address climate change.
17. T F Using the I-PAT formula, population increase in a country with high per capita GDP would have a smaller impact than that in a country with low GDP.
18. T F Developing countries now discuss population stabilization as a strategy for addressing climate change.
19. T F Bangladesh is a world leader in addressing climate change.

Essay Questions (Suggested Main Points listed)

1. How is climate change adaptation linked to vulnerability and resilience?
   1. Adaptation includes initiatives and measures to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems against actual or expected climate change effects.
   2. Vulnerability is characterized as how a system is exposed to climate change and climate variation and its sensitivity to the effects of the climate change.
   3. Resilience refers to the ability of a system to absorb shocks and still maintain its basic structure, along with its capacity to adapt to external stressors and to change.
   4. (extra credit) Studies on natural systems rather than on social systems continue to dominate research on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.
2. Discuss how migration is related to climate change.
   1. Rural to urban migration as land yields decrease.
   2. Millions of climate refugees migrating from the global south to the global north in search of relief.
   3. Water scarcity also forces populations to move.
   4. Rural migration to cities will exacerbate urban poverty and environmental degradation in those areas which are often on ocean coasts.
3. In 2012, the countries of Spain and Tanzania had roughly the same size population, 46 million in the former and 48 million in the latter. Discuss their population projections and what implications these numbers have for climate change.
   1. While Spain’s population in 2050 is projected to grow to 48 million, an increase of 2 million people, Tanzania could grow to 138 million people, nearly tripling the country’s 2012 population.
   2. Water quality, land use, and adaptation.
   3. Migration to urban areas.
   4. Extra credit should be given to the student who gathers data on the respective emissions or carbon footprints of each country.