Chapter 13: Environmental Sociology: Population, Urbanization, and Climate Change

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following look at both ecology and human communities and how they interact with each other?

a. anthropologists

b. public sociologists

c. environmental sociologists

d. biosociologists

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. ______ is the number of years a person in a particular society is expected to live.

a. Demography

b. Life expectancy

c. Fertility

d. Mortality

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Macro-Level Patterns in World Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. In a country where women are having fewer children than ever before, the population is expected to continue growing for the next 20 years. How is this possible?

a. birth rates below population replacement levels

b. population momentum

c. zero population growth

d. increased life expectancy

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Macro-Level Patterns in World Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The study of human populations is known as ______.

a. demography

b. cartography

c. anthropology

d. urban ecology

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Macro-Level Patterns in World Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The large population we see today resulted from three phases of population growth. When did the biggest increase in population come?

a. the bronze age

b. the agricultural revolution

c. the industrial revolution

d. the information revolution

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Patterns of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. What does the dependency ratio represent?

a. the growth rate of the population under 15

b. the economic productivity of the working-age population

c. the economic burden of people in the population who must be supported by the working-age population

d. the size of the population under 15 and over 64 who must be supported by the working-age population

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Predictors of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What do population pyramids illustrate?

a. fertility rates and mortality rates

b. sex ratios and dependency ratios

c. birth rates and life expectancy

d. natural change and natural turnover

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Predictors of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Which of the following is typical of Global South countries?

a. low birth rates and a low youth age dependency ratio

b. low birth rates and a high youth age dependency ratio

c. high birth rates and a high youth dependency ratio

d. high birth rates and a low youth dependency ratio

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Predictors of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Who wrote “Essay on the Principle of Population,” arguing that humans are driven to reproduce and will multiply excessively without checks to slow population growth?

a. C. Wright Mills

b. Thomas Malthus

c. Warren Thomson

d. Karl Marx

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Malthus’s Theory of Population

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Which of the following is a positive check on population, according to Malthusian theory?

a. war

b. birth control

c. greater education for women

d. a booming economy

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Malthus’s Theory of Population

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Which of the following is a preventative check on population, according to Malthusian theory?

a. war

b. waterborne diseases

c. food shortages

d. delaying marriage

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Malthus’s Theory of Population

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Despite the significance of Malthus’s work, his vision hasn’t come to pass. What did he fail to anticipate?

a. population momentum

b. agricultural advances

c. environmental determinism

d. pandemics

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Malthus’s Theory of Population

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. According to demographic transition theory, which of the following is TRUE of stage 1?

a. The population has a low birth rate and a low death rate.

b. The total population is beginning to decrease for the first time.

c. The population has a high birth rate, but the death rate is declining.

d. The population has a high birth rate and a high death rate that tend to balance each other over time.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. According to demographic transition theory, which stage has been the pattern for most of human history?

a. stage 1

b. stage 2

c. stage 3

d. stage 4

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. According to demographic transition theory, which of the following is TRUE of stage 5?

a. Birth rates and death rates are high.

b. The population growth rate is very high.

c. This stage has not yet come into full existence.

d. Most industrial societies are in this stage.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. A primary criticism of demographic transition theory is that it ______.

a. ignores economic and technological development

b. does not consider how a country’s resources and land may determine how much population it can support

c. ignores the role of improvements in health and sanitation

d. stops short of forecasting future population growth and expansion

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Hard

17. According to wealth flow theory, which of the following is TRUE when intergenerational wealth flows from children to parents?

a. child mortality is low

b. death rates are low

c. birth rates are high

d. the total population is decreasing

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Hard

18. Karl Marx disagreed with Malthus’s idea that high fertility rates and population growth produce poverty. Rather, he believed that ______ caused poverty.

a. natural disasters

b. socialist policies

c. capitalism

d. institutional racism

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict Theorists’ Explanations of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. ______ occurs when environmental pollution disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minorities.

a. Othering

b. Environmental racism

c. Gentrification

d. Segregation

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Conflict Theorists’ Explanations of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. The birth rate is also referred to as ______, and the death rate is also known as ______.

a. fecundity; mortality

b. fertility; morbidity

c. fertility; mortality

d. fecundity; morbidity

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Meso-Level Institutional Influences on Population Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. The movement of people from one place to another is called ______.

a. mobility

b. migration

c. tectonics

d. demographic transition

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Meso-Level Institutional Influences on Population Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. China’s one-child policy was an example of a(n) ______.

a. pronatalist policy

b. antinatalist policy

c. expansionary policy

d. contractionary policy

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Political Systems and Population Patterns

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Singapore has limited the number of one bedroom apartments to force more people to live together. This is an example of a(n) ______.

a. pronatalist policy

b. antinatalist policy

c. expansionary policy

d. contractionary policy

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Political Systems and Population Patterns

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. In general, the higher the status of women in society, ______.

a. the lower the female life expectancy

b. the higher the youth dependency ratio

c. the lower the fertility rate

d. the higher the population growth

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Education and Population

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. According to the ______ model, most people do NOT leave a location unless they have been forced out, or have a viable alternative in a new location.

a. human capital

b. gravity

c. micro behavioral

d. push-pull

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population patterns.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Migration and Mobility: Where People Move and Why

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. Which of the following is a pull factor in migration?

a. war

b. jobs

c. political conflicts

d. economic crises

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population patterns.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Migration and Mobility: Where People Move and Why

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. The ______ perspective focuses on how individuals’ assessment of costs and benefits impacts migration patterns.

a. functionalist

b. symbolic interactionist

c. conflict

d. rational choice

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Migration and Mobility: Where People Move and Why

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. ______ are those who flee in search of safety in times of war, political oppression, natural disaster, or religious persecution.

a. Refugees

b. Asylum seekers

c. Labor migrants

d. Undocumented immigrants

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: International Migration

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. Which of the following was TRUE when Social Security was established in the United States in the 1930s?

a. The child dependency ratio was lower than it is now.

b. Life expectancy was lower that it is now.

c. Life expectancy was higher for men than for women.

d. The old-age dependency ratio was lower.

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Micro-Level Population Patterns

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. ______ is a pattern of movement from rural areas to cities.

a. Urbanization

b. Suburbanization

c. Emigration

d. Migration

Learning Objective: 13.4: Discuss national and global urbanization trends

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Urbanization: Movement from Rural to Urban Areas

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. In 1900, 60.4% of Americans lived in ______.

a. megacities

b. urban areas

c. urban clusters

d. rural areas

Learning Objective: 13.4: Discuss national and global urbanization trends

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Urbanization: Movement from Rural to Urban Areas

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. By 2015, 81.6% of Americans lived in ______.

a. megacities

b. urban areas

c. urban clusters

d. rural areas

Learning Objective: 13.4: Discuss national and global urbanization trends

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Urbanization: Movement from Rural to Urban Areas

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. Some of the first U.S. sociologists, members of the Chicago School, focused on which of the following?

a. patterns of land use and residential distribution in the city

b. world urbanization trends

c. the effect of past and present racial discrimination on minorities living in cities

d. the varying physical health of urban dwellers

Learning Objective: 13.5: Explain why moving from rural to urban settings can lead to anomie.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Urban Development

Difficulty Level: Hard

34. Who published The Philadelphia Negro, the first empirical study of urban Black people, in 1899, but has only recently been widely acknowledged for his groundbreaking studies?

a. E. Franklin Frasier

b. Georg Simmel

c. Charles S. Johnson

d. W. E. B. Du Bois

Learning Objective: 13.5: Explain why moving from rural to urban settings can lead to anomie.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Urban Development

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. Which of the following is a global trend affecting urban planning today?

a. Anomie will decrease.

b. International boundaries will increase in importance.

c. McDonaldization will continue.

d. Economic stratification will decrease.

Learning Objective: 13.6: Explain three major environmental problems facing urban areas in the Global South.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Urban Planning for Structures That Meet Human Needs

Difficulty Level: Hard

36. Which of the following occurs when the Earth’s atmosphere traps heat that radiates out from the Earth?

a. the unruh effect

b. the Wallace effect

c. the Dole effect

d. the greenhouse effect

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Greenhouse Effect

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. The increase of ______ in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution mirrors the increase of atmospheric pressure over that same period.

a. nitrous oxide

b. carbon dioxide

c. methane

d. chlorofluorocarbons

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Greenhouse Effect

Difficulty Level: Medium

38. Which of the following agreements, signed in 2016, represents a global effort to reduce emissions?

a. the UNFCCC

b. the Copenhagen and Cancun Agreements

c. the Paris Agreement

d. the Kyoto Protocol

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Macro, Meso, and Micro Repercussions and Solutions

Difficulty Level: Easy

39. Which of the following is TRUE of U.S. residents’ view of climate change?

a. A majority believe that climate change is a national threat.

b. A majority believe that climate change is a hoax.

c. A majority are unsure if climate change is real or not.

d. A majority believe that climate change is a distant threat unworthy of national attention.

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Macro, Meso, and Micro Repercussions and Solutions

Difficulty Level: Medium

40. A society that can meet our current needs without harming future generations is referred to as a ______ society.

a. positive

b. green

c. renewable

d. sustainable

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Macro, Meso, and Micro Repercussions and Solutions

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. The worldwide rate of population growth reached its peak during the Industrial Revolution.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Patterns of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The number of people older than age 64 compared with those between 15 and 64 is referred to as the youth dependency ratio.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Predictors of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Most Global North countries have relatively high age dependency ratios.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Predictors of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Epidemics and wars are positive checks on population growth.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Malthus’s Theory of Population

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Malthus approved of contraception as a preventative check on population growth.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Malthus’s Theory of Population

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Malthus overemphasized environmental determinism.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Malthus’s Theory of Population

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. According to demographic transition theory, during the second stage of development, populations have high birth and death rates that tend to balance each other over time.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. When wealth flows from parents to children, families tend to have fewer children.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Karl Marx believed that high fertility rates and population growth that outstrips food and resources produce poverty.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict Theorists’ Explanations of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The dumping of toxic waste into areas of high percentages of people of color is an example of environment racism.

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict Theorists’ Explanations of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Migration changes the size and composition of the world.

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Meso-Level Institutional Influences on Population Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Economic development generally results in a decline in the rate of fertility.

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Economic Factors and Population Patterns

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Providing free contraceptives is an example of a pronatalist policy.

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Political Systems and Population Patterns

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The United States government is NOT clearly antinatalist or pronatalist.

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Political Systems and Population Patterns

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. If a country wants to control population growth, raising the status of women is key.

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Education and Population

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The gap in life expectancy between the top 1% and bottom 1% in income in the United States has decreased over the past 20 years.

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Factors Affecting Mortality Rates

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Religious conflicts are a push factor in migration.

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Migration and Mobility: Where People Move and Why

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Immigration tends to create significant economic loses for receiving countries.

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Migration and Mobility: Where People Move and Why

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Today, there are more refugees in the world than at any time since World War II.

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Migration and Mobility: Where People Move and Why

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Cities with more than 10 million people are known as megacities.

Learning Objective: 13.4: Discuss national and global urbanization trends.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Urbanization: Movement From Rural to Urban Areas

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. American cities have low levels of residential segregation.

Learning Objective: 13.5: Explain why moving from rural to urban settings can lead to anomie.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Theories of Urban Development

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The overwhelming scientific consensus is that humans have contributed to global warming and must take immediate steps to halt it.

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Climate Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Nitrous oxide is the most prevalent greenhouse gas.

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Greenhouse Effect

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Most U.S. residents are climate change deniers.

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Macro, Meso, and Micro Repercussions and Solutions

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Some U.S. states hold themselves to higher regulatory standards than the federal government requires.

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Macro, Meso, and Micro Repercussions and Solutions

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Why do Global South and Global North nations tend to have relatively high dependency ratios?

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Predictors of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. What are population pyramids? What can they tell us about a nation?

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Predictors of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. How does the demographic transition theory fall short in explaining population growth and expansion?

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Why do families living in poor nations tend to have more children?

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Transition: Explaining Population Growth and Expansion

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. How can well-intentioned practices, such as recycling or donating, actually contribute to environmental racism?

Learning Objective: 13.1: Illustrate the pattern of the world’s population growth over time.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict Theorists’ Explanations of Population Growth

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. What are pronatalist and antinatalist policies? Give an example of both.

Learning Objective: 13.2: Give examples of institutional influences on fertility, mortality, and migration.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Political Systems and Population Patterns

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What is the push–pull model of migration?

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Migration and Mobility: Where People Move and Why

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. According to social scientists, how does immigration tend to impact receiving countries?

Learning Objective: 13.3: Describe individual decisions that affect population trends.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Migration and Mobility: Where People Move and Why

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. How urbanized is the United States?

Learning Objective: 13.4: Discuss national and global urbanization trends.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Urbanization: Movement From Rural to Urban Areas

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. How did W. E. B. Du Bois contribute to the study of urban life?

Learning Objective: 13.5: Explain why moving from rural to urban settings can lead to anomie.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Theories of Urban Development

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. How have urban planners begun to take more active roles on issues related to demographic and economic changes?

Learning Objective: 13.6: Explain three major environmental problems facing urban areas in the Global South.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Theories of Urban Development

Difficulty Level: Hard

12. What is the overwhelming scientific consensus regarding climate change?

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue. Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Climate Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. What is the greenhouse effect? How does it relate to climate change?

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Greenhouse Effect

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. What is the attitude of most U.S. residents towards climate change?

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Macro, Meso, and Micro Repercussions and Solutions

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. What steps have corporations and governments begun to take to recognize, prepare for, and mitigate the effects of climate change?

Learning Objective: 13.7: Describe how climate change is a global issue.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Macro, Meso, and Micro Repercussions and Solutions

Difficulty Level: Hard