Chapter 14 Geog

False

Low-income countries account for a large majority of the world's energy consumption.

False

A positive feedback loop offsets the original change in an environmental cycle and works toward restoring the balance.

A. the only one that operates independent of human activity

A natural feedback solution to an environmental problem is unique because it is:

B. when people do not want undesirable land-use activities near their residences

"NIMBY" stands for which concept?

C. Latin America

"The Scourge of Cows" describes environmental damage in what region?

True

Chopping down trees in the rainforest is a form of "direct biological interference."

False

Environmental impact invariably increases with a country's level of development.

True

Human impact on the natural environment results from human interference with ecosystem cycles.

True

In general, individuals in more-developed countries consume more resources on a per capita basis.

D. political/economic decisions

In the article about tropical deforestation, road-building into the Amazon is an example of which kind of driving force?

False

In the generalized model of human-caused environmental change, the last box (solutions) can loop back to provide feedback to human activities and adverse consequences, but not to human driving forces or environmental change.

True

The IPAT formula calculates environmental impact as a factor of population, affluence, and technology.

False

The five stages of the "human impact on the environment" model in the book are (in the proper order): (1) human driving forces, (2) environmental change, (3) human activities, (4) adverse consequences and (5) solutions.

C. redistribution of natural resources

The primary mechanism causing the Aral Sea to shrink in size is:

C. population growth and culture

Which of the following are human driving forces?

D. pollution

Which of the following is not one of the five primary human driving forces of environmental change?

D. Burying of solid, hazardous, and toxic wastes

Which of the following is not one of the three basic categories of humancaused environmental change

B. Redistribution or sequestering of natural sources

Which of the following mechanisms of environmental change is exemplified by soil erosion caused by plowing a steep hillside?

E. political and economic system

Which of the following would be considered the primary human driving force behind the desertification of the Aral Sea region?

D. coal, oil, natural gas

Which order of the following fossil fuels ranks them starting with the one that produces the most CO2 for a given amount of heat energy, and ending with the one that produces the least?