Geography Final Exam Questions

Describe the relationship between fish consumption and the less economically developed countries

The more developed=the less fish consumption, the less developed=the more fish consumption

Where does most of earth's carbon get deposited through the carbon cycle?

The ocean

When was deforestation ever considered good for society and the environment?

The pre-Industrial or Pre-modern times, seen as conquering nature

Identify the unit of money required to pay for energy systems that don't emit CO2

Trillions (23 trillion dollars to decarbonize society)

T/F: countries can plant and grow world leading quantities of trees but still be responsible for deforestation through their imports?

True

T/F: in the case of dolphin-safe tuna, green consumerism succeeded in reducing dolphin bycatch and increasing non dolphin bycatch

True

T/F: it's possible to maximize the potential profit from fishing while also exceeding the maximum sustainable yield

True

T/F: production of toxic e waste will most likely persist based on the technological breakthroughs associated with the anticipated upturn in the business cycle

True

True/false: Life on earth can change the character of the planet enough to challenge its own survival

True

True/false: successful predator reintroduction programs succeed if they allow stakeholders to continue killing wildlife

True-Allows autonomy of farmers and ranchers

How do the heavy metals and flame retardants used in circuit boards begin to pose health risks as e-waste?

When released into the environment through smokestack they become toxic, risk because of it's toxic component and not its mass amount

What types of non-human life are threatened with extinction according to the IUCN's Red List?

Wildlife

Why was Rachel Carson's book about chemical pollution's threat to life called Silent Spring?

No more birds because of destroyed environment due to pollution

Describe the effect of burning the world's abundant fossil fuels reserves, and releasing CO2, on the atmosphere

The greenhouse effect of releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, delays the loss of the sun's energy to space by absorbing and re-radiating heat in the earth's atmosphere

Identify the market that matured for chemical companies, which led them to create demand for lawn care chemicals

The agriculture market matured, meaning there was no more avenues for continued expansion of growth

Use of land surface for ornamental lawns booms alongside economic activity in which sector of the economy?

real estate (but also look out for construction)

what types of economic factors determine if your recycling actually gets processed for its raw materials, or just goes to a landfill with the rest of your trash

sacrifice zones, raw material recovery, dumping and landfilling

What features of the UNFCCC are successful and which have failed?

Succeeded in monitoring, autonomy, and jurisdiction, failed in unequal development

Where do lifestyle environmentalist ethics stumble when they try to stop environmental degradation like deforestation?

Animals>humans, there needs to be radical change but lifestyle environmentalists aren't offering attractive alternatives

What features of the UNCLOS are successful and which have failed

Autonomy and jurisdiction were successful, where you can use the ocean and where you cannot, establishing economic zones where you cannot fish and where you can. They have failed in disciplinary power and inequality in the world system

How could economic upgrading in fish production put a stop to ocean trawling and dredging in developing economies?

Causes a lot of bycatch of species which causes them to die unnecessarily. Fish farm.

What are the specific changes humans are making to the natural environment that cause earth's sixth mass extinction?

Deforestation, land use change. Relates to agricultural development

What did a well maintained lawn mean for working class suburbanites subject to the American way of life?

Equated with a high standard of life in exchange for the continued business patrol and ownership of the economy

True/False: most global deforestation was caused by logging companies selling construction timber and wood pulp for paper products

False

True/false: after a suburban lawn is seeded with Poa pratensis, the grass will outcompete other vegetation for decades to come

False, there is another Poa that competes and there are also trees/bushes

True/false: evolution's background rate of extinction is different from a mass extinction because mass extinctions happen suddenly, all at once, and at high speed

False-Mass extinctions don't happen in one lifetime, they happen over many human lives. Quick in geological time but slow in human time

True/false: the net zero plan for stopping global warming places the burden of absorbing CO2 on to polluters in the advanced capitalist economies

False-the burden falls on underdeveloped countries

Why are the forests of tropical Indonesia and Brazil being cut down?

For soybean and corn crops to feed animals and livestock. For profit of agribusiness. For meat business.

Identify the risks to public health posed by tropical deforestation that makes way for feed and food cropland?

Forces animals out of their habitats and increases spread of disease. Brings humans into closer contact with species they have never been in contact with.

Identify the specific goals of economic development that could stabilize and even reverse declining wildlife populations

Intensifying agriculture to produce more food from the same amount of land. Cultured meat production-developing this area of meat production will go a long way in reversing declining wildlife populations. Planned shared development, alleviating poverty, cultured meat production

Our attitudes towards predators have started to shift as hunting has been increasingly decoupled from which ethic?

Masculinity

Identify a type of fishing method that does not need tight limitation to avoid depleting the oceans fisheries

Subsistence fishing

True/false: highly educated homeowners in upscale neighborhoods adequately perceive the risks of lawn care are toxicity and act rationally

false