Exam Prep Environment, Subsistence, And Demography Chapter 8 - Complete Test Bank | Cultural Anthropology Global 10e by Raymond Scupin. DOCX document preview.
Test Bank
Chapter 8: Environment, Subsistence, and Demography
Multiple Choice
1. Which organism has been the most successful at adapting to environments all over the world?
a. humans
b. orangutans
c. orchids
d. krill
Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the relationship between subsistence and the physical environment (biomes).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Subsistence and the Physical Environment
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Organisms adjust to the environment through ______.
a. finding their niche
b. culture
c. inherited traits
d. subsistence
Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the relationship between subsistence and the physical environment (biomes).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Subsistence and the Physical Environment
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Subsistence patterns are limited by ______.
a. the environment
b. human creativity
c. cultural contact
d. mutations
Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the relationship between subsistence and the physical environment (biomes).
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Subsistence Patterns and Environment
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. An agricultural field with irrigation canals is an example of which of the following?
a. fecundity
b. environmental niche
c. anthropogenic landscape
d. push factor
Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the relationship between subsistence and the physical environment (biomes).
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Subsistence Patterns and Environments
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. An anthropologist designs a study to observe and measure how many kilocalories per day a small-scale society uses to hunt and gather all of the resources they need to survive. What is this study examining?
a. demographics
b. unilineal evolution
c. food producers
d. energy capture
Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the relationship between subsistence and the physical environment (biomes).
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Subsistence Patterns and Environments
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. The natural growth rate is calculated from which of the following demographic factors?
a. crude birth rate and crude death rate
b. morbidity and mortality
c. fecundity and fertility
d. in-migration and out-migration
Learning Objective: 8.2: Describe how anthropologists study population with reference to fertility, mortality, and migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Fertility, Mortality, and Migration
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Regular flooding is an example of a ______.
a. pull factor
b. push factor
c. fecundity measure
d. mortality factor
Learning Objective: 8.2: Describe how anthropologists study population with reference to fertility, mortality, and migration.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Fertility, Mortality, and Migration
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Areas with few resources have a lower ______ than those with many resources.
a. push factor rate
b. environmental niche
c. microbiome
d. carrying capacity
Learning Objective: 8.2: Describe how anthropologists study population with reference to fertility, mortality, and migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Fertility, Mortality, and Migration
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Why are most bands nomadic?
a. They must move from place to place in search of food.
b. They do not frequently meet outsiders.
c. Women provide most of the nutrients through gathering.
d. Band level societies are frequently in violent conflict with one another.
Learning Objective: 8.3: Describe the different environments and subsistence activities of foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Mobility and Subsistence
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Foragers depend mostly on ______ for acquiring food.
a. gardens
b. draft animals
c. human energy
d. machine technology
Learning Objective: 8.3: Describe the different environments and subsistence activities of foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Modern Foraging Environments and Subsistence
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Energy capture in ______ environments is limited.
a. marginal
b. savannah
c. temperate
d. grassland
Learning Objective: 8.3: Describe the different environments and subsistence activities of foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Modern Foraging Environments and Subsistence
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. The Ju/’hoansi San spend ______ obtaining their food.
a. enormous time and energy
b. a lot of time but little energy
c. very little time but enormous energy
d. not much time or energy
Learning Objective: 8.3: Describe the different environments and subsistence activities of foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Deserts
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. A foraging society in Alaska would rely primarily upon ______ for food.
a. vegetation
b. berries
c. meat
d. crops
Learning Objective: 8.3: Describe the different environments and subsistence activities of foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Arctic Regions
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. The need for ______ impacts population among foragers.
a. meat
b. mobility
c. isolation
d. food
Learning Objective: 8.4: Discuss the demographic conditions for foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Demographic Conditions for Foragers
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. Which method of forager population control works best when there is unoccupied territory nearby?
a. fissioning
b. fusion
c. infanticide
d. geronticide
Learning Objective: 8.4: Discuss the demographic conditions for foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Fissioning
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Population control practices are most often used in foraging societies when ______.
a. babies are born with genetic problems
b. people grow too old to contribute to society
c. resources are too scarce to support a growing population
d. nomadism is prevalent
Learning Objective: 8.4: Discuss the demographic conditions for foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Fissioning
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. If a forager woman gives birth to a child too soon after the birth of her previous child, she may practice ______.
a. birth control
b. infanticide
c. geronticide
d. abortion
Learning Objective: 8.4: Discuss the demographic conditions for foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Infanticide and Geronticide
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Swidden agriculturalists are more ______ than foragers.
a. nomadic
b. sedentary
c. intelligent
d. brutal
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the environments and subsistence for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Environment and Subsistence for Horticulturalists and Pastoralists
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. The Yanomamö rely on which of the following for subsistence?
a. only gardens
b. only herds of animals
c. horticulture and foraging
d. horticulture and pastoralism
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the environments and subsistence for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Amazon Horticulturalists: The Yanomamö
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Fallow time is required for ______.
a. leaving forest patches for hunting
b. gathering nuts, seeds, and berries
c. replenishment of soil nutrients
d. population control
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the environments and subsistence for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Environment and Subsistence for Horticulturalists and Pastoralists
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. The Nuer diet of milk and blood from their cattle reflects a ______ subsistence pattern.
a. foraging
b. horticultural
c. pastoral
d. agriculture
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the environments and subsistence for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: East African Cattle Complex
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. The Tsembaga diet of root crops, such as manioc and yams, reflects a ______ subsistence pattern.
a. foraging
b. horticultural
c. pastoral
d. agricultural
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the environments and subsistence for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: New Guinea Horticulturalists: The Tsembaga
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. The increased carrying capacity of a territory allows for an increased ______.
a. nomadism
b. crude death rate
c. population density
d. out-migration
Learning Objective: 8.6: Describe how settling down influences population growth for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Demographics and Settlement
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Tribes have a ______ than bands.
a. higher population density
b. lower natural growth rate
c. lower fecundity
d. higher mortality
Learning Objective: 8.6: Describe how settling down influences population growth for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Demographics and Settlement
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. The ______ used by many chiefdom societies yields more food than swidden horticulture.
a. swidden horticulture
b. intensive horticulture
c. foraging
d. pastoralism
Learning Objective: 8.7: Describe the environments and subsistence activities for chiefdoms.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Pacific Island Chiefdoms
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. Most cultures in Africa prior to Western colonization were ______.
a. bands
b. tribes
c. chiefdoms
d. states
Learning Objective: 8.7: Describe the environments and subsistence activities for chiefdoms.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: African Chiefdoms
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. What is one of the major functions of leaders in chiefdom societies?
a. controlling the activities of members of the group
b. organizing the distribution of surplus food
c. carrying out rituals for the well-being of the group
d. supervising bureaucratic activities
Learning Objective: 8.7: Describe the environments and subsistence activities for chiefdoms.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Demography in Chiefdoms
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Which subsistence pattern is associated with the Neolithic?
a. foraging
b. horticulture
c. pastoralism
d. agriculture
Learning Objective: 8.8: Describe the changes for populations in agricultural states.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Environment and Demography in Agricultural States
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. What is the primary energy source in industrialized societies?
a. human energy
b. animal labor
c. wind power
d. fossil fuels
Learning Objective: 8.9: Discuss the development of energy sources in industrial and postindustrial societies.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Environment and Energy Use in Industrial and Postindustrial Societies
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. Which of the following is a disadvantage of industrial societies?
a. a reliance upon immense amounts of human labor
b. a rapid depletion of resources
c. technological innovation
d. the necessity for nomadism
Learning Objective: 8.9: Discuss the development of energy sources in industrial and postindustrial societies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: High Energy Consumption Patterns
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. How many phases of population change are posited by the demographic transition model?
a. three
b. five
c. seven
d. nine
Learning Objective: 8.10: Discuss the demographic transition model and its consequences for industrial and postindustrial societies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Demographic Change
Difficulty Level: Easy
32. Phase 1 of the demographic transition model is characterized by ______.
a. high fertility and low mortality
b. low fertility and high mortality
c. high fertility and high mortality
d. low fertility and low mortality
Learning Objective: 8.10: Discuss the demographic transition model and its consequences for industrial and postindustrial societies.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Demographic Change
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. High fertility with low mortality leads to ______.
a. rapidly growing population
b. rapidly dwindling population
c. stagnant population growth
d. slow population growth
Learning Objective: 8.10: Discuss the demographic transition model and its consequences for industrial and postindustrial societies.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Demographic Change
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. A society that has an agricultural lifestyle and excellent medical care would be in which phase of the demographic transition?
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. Phase 3
d. Phase 4
Learning Objective: 8.10: Discuss the demographic transition model and its consequences for industrial and postindustrial societies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Demographic Change
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. A society with a foraging lifestyle would be in ______ of the demographic transition.
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. Phase 3
d. Phase 4
Learning Objective: 8.10: Discuss the demographic transition model and its consequences for industrial and postindustrial societies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Demographic Change
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. The major way humans have adapted to their environment is through culture.
Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the relationship between subsistence and the physical environment (biomes).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Subsistence and the Physical Environment
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. In modern hunter-gatherer societies, men contribute the majority of calories through hunting.
Learning Objective: 8.3: Describe the different environments and subsistence activities of foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Deserts
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Swidden agriculture in rainforests is used because the soil is low in oxygen.
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the environments and subsistence for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Environment and Subsistence for Horticulturalists and Pastoralists
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Chiefdom societies typically exist in areas with abundant resources.
Learning Objective: 8.7: Describe the environments and subsistence activities for chiefdoms.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Environment, Subsistence, and Demography for Chiefdoms
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Cultural evolution always leads to improved conditions for humans.
Learning Objective: 8.8: Describe the changes for populations in agricultural states.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Environment and Demography in Agricultural States
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. Explain the relationship between humans and the environment.
Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the relationship between subsistence and the physical environment (biomes).
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Subsistence Patterns and Environments
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Describe how the environment affects foraging societies.
Learning Objective: 8.3: Describe the different environments and subsistence activities of foragers.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Modern Foraging Environments and Subsistence
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Explain how swidden agriculture works.
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the environments and subsistence for horticulturalists and pastoralists.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Environment and Subsistence for Horticulturalists and Pastoralists
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of intensive agriculture.
Learning Objective: 8.8: Describe the changes for populations in agricultural states.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Environment and Demography in Agricultural States
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Discuss how industrialization impacts population growth.
Learning Objective: 8.10: Discuss the demographic transition model and its consequences for industrial and postindustrial societies.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Demographic-Transition Model Applied
Difficulty Level: Hard
Document Information
Connected Book
Complete Test Bank | Cultural Anthropology Global 10e
By Raymond Scupin