Which of the following statements is true of water consumption?
A) The developing world has more access to fresh water than industrialized nations.
B) The world's demand for water has reduced by 10 percent over the last half century.
C) The average person in the United States uses about 40 gallons of water a day.
D) Industrialized nations use more water and pay less for it.
E) Europeans pay five times as much as the developing world for clean water.
Question 2Which of the following is true of the availability and consumption of water?
A) Only about 1 percent of the earth's fresh water is available for around 7 billion people.
B) The world's demand for water has decreased by 20 percent over the last half century.
C) The average person in the United States uses about 23 gallons of water per day compared with163 in China.
D) Industrialized nations use less clean water and pay more for it than the developing world.
E) The developing world has more access to fresh water than industrialized nations.
Question 3Only _____ percent of the earth's water is fresh.
A) 27
B) 15
C) 10
D) 9
E) 3
Question 4Which of the following statements is true of the environment?
A) Less than 10 percent of food gets wasted in the United States.
B) Food wastage percentage was the highest during the 1970s.
C) Up to 1,000 people in the United States get sick from polluted beach water.
D) Only 0.01 percent of the pesticides used in the United States reach the intended target.
E) According to research, pesticide contamination of food, water, and air was the least in 2014.
Question 5_____ are most interested in the impact of urban life on city residents and state that city residents differ in their types of lifestyles and perceptions of urban life.
A) Conflict theorists
B) Symbolic interactionists
C) Functionalists
D) Feminists
E) Socialists
Question 6_____ emphasize gender-related constraints while studying sociological explanations of urbanization.
A) Feminist theories
B) Symbolic interaction theories
C) Functionalist theories
D) Economic theories
E) Conflict theories
Question 7Ralph believes that urban development is a political tactic and is controlled by laws that favor the rich. Ralph's views represent the perspective of the _____.
A) functionalists
B) symbolic interactionists
C) conflict theorists
D) feminist theorists
E) fundamentalists