Strategies to maximize profits by designing
products with a limited, useful life or making superficial changes to existing products so that the previous product seems out of date are examples of __________.
A) profit sharing
B) planned obsolescence
C) environmental racism
D) structural-functionalism
If an owner of a company that produces a lot
of waste wants to be able to keep polluting, what, according to the text, is that owner's best strategy?
A) Lobby and otherwise use the political system to ensure regulations are lax
B) Realize the pollution is too damaging, take responsibility for causing the pollution, and pay for the cleanup.
C) Do nothing.
D) Only pollute at night when fewer people will notice
Which rate results from dividing the number of deaths of children under one year of age by the number of live births during the same year, then multiplying the result by 1,000?
a. infant mortality rate
b. crude infant death rate
c. crib death rate
d. abortion rate
Which term refers to the incidence of death in a country's population?
a. mortality
b. morbidity
c. the crude death rate
d. the infant mortality rate
What is calculated by dividing the number of live births in a year by the society's total population, and then multiplying the result by 1,000?
a. refined fertility rate
b. crude birth rate
c. population-growth rate
d. childbearing rate
In 2013, the human population of the planet was
a. 20 billion.
b. 14.2 billion.
c. 7.2 billion.
d. 10 billion.
Over the course of the twentieth century, global population
a. stayed about the same.
b. doubled.
c. tripled.
d. quadrupled.
Which of the following can be considered a structural source of environmental problems?
A) the socialist economy
B) the greenhouse effect
C) the system of stratification
D) the destruction of rainforests
Which term refers to the study of human population?
a. demography
b. popology
c. human ecology
d. ethnology
The major underlying sources of our present environmental problems are __________.
A) government legislators
B) corporate executives
C) beyond our control
D) the culture and structure of our society
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