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Full Download Test Bank For Environment The Science Behind The Stories 6th Edition Jay H Withgott Matthew Laposata PDF Full Chapter
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2) Nearly 50% of the land on our planet is currently used for agriculture, with very little more
2)
agriculturally usable land available. If everyone on the planet had an ecological footprint the
size of
the average citizen of the United States, then
_.
A) we would have 50% more food to go around
B) about 50% of the people would starve
C) we could support 50% more people on our planet
D) we would be able to provide for everyone without much difficulty, using the other 50% of
the land currently not being used
E) we would need at least two more planet Earths to feed and support everyone
Answer: E
3) The U.S. average footprint is times larger than the world average footprint.
3) A) 2 B) 2.7 C) 3.3 D) 5 E) 6.7
Answer: B
4) The global average footprint per person has increased from 2.2 to 2.7 hectares since 2008, including 4)
the footprints of many developing nations such as India and China. This means that .
A) our collective lifestyle is even more unsustainable than
before B) our collective lifestyle is slightly more sustainable
than before C) some nations no longer have a measurable
footprint
D) the populations of both India and China have decreased since
2008
E) the ability of the planet to sustain human beings has
increased
Answer: A
MATCHING. Choose the item in column 2 that best matches each item in column 1.
H) qualitative data
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9) Widely accepted, well-tested A) hypothesis
9)
explanation of one or more
cause-and-effect B) social science
relationships
Answer: C C) theory
10)
10) Statement that attempts to explain D) environmentalism
a phenomenon or answer a
scientific question
Answer: A
11)
11) The study of human interactions
and institutions
Answer: B
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
12) Which of the following discoveries would be most likely to cause a scientific paradigm shift?
12) A) the discovery of a new species of salamander in the Amazon rainforest
B) the discovery of more rings around Uranus
C) the discovery of a new pathogenic virus transmitted by mosquitoes
D) the discovery that a dormant volcano is showing signs of activity
E) the discovery that excess heat is radiating from the center of the earth and causing
global climate change
Answer: E
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16) A hypothesis is _ .
16) A) the design of an experiment that can be used in scientific enquiry
B) a prediction about something that has not yet been observed
C) a proven scientific fact
D) a statement that explains an observed phenomenon or answers a question
E) an instrument that is used to examine environmental conditions
Answer: D
17) Roberto lives near a wind farm and is wondering about the environmental effects of the wind 17)
turbines. He that the turbines make a sound like faint airplane engines and also that
there
are far fewer meadowlarks living near the windfarm than lived there before the windfarm
was built.
A)
observes
B)
hypothesizes
C) guesses
D) predicts
E) theorizes
Answer: A
18) Roberto lives near a wind farm and is wondering about the environmental effects of the 18)
wind
turbines. He that the turbines, which sound like faint airplane engines, are scaring
off
meadowlarks that used to nest in the area.
A) theorizes
B) hypothesizes
C) hopes
D) predicts
E) observes
Answer: B
A) a scientist has been caught manipulating the data for economic gain
B) researchers manipulate as many variables as possible
C) the peer review process is bypassed
D) researchers manipulate the independent variable
E) replication of the experiment is not necessary
Answer: D
20) An environmental scientist is least likely to be involved with which of the following?
20) A) studying X-ray emissions for evidence of black holes
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A nobler counsel breathes from the charter of our independence; a
happier province belongs to our republic. Peace we would extend,
but by persuasion and example,—the moral force, by which alone it
can prevail among the nations. Wars we may encounter, but it is in
the sacred character of the injured and the wronged; to raise the
trampled rights of humanity from the dust; to rescue the mild form
of liberty from her abode among the prisons and the scaffolds of the
elder world, and to seat her in the chair of state among her adoring
children; to give her beauty for ashes; a healthful action for her cruel
agony; to put at last a period to her warfare on earth; to tear her star-
spangled banner from the perilous ridges of battle, and plant it on
the rock of ages. There be it fixed for ever,—the power of a free
people slumbering in its folds, their peace reposing in its shade!
Close of the Speech of Daniel Webster
January, 1832.
Mr. President,—The plain and seemingly obvious truth, that in a
fair and equal exchange of commodities all parties gained, is a noble
discovery of modern times. The contrary principle naturally led to
commercial rivalries, wars, and abuses of all sorts. The benefits of
commerce being regarded as a stake to be won, or an advantage to be
wrested from others by fraud or by force, governments naturally
strove to secure them to their own subjects; and when they once set
out in this wrong direction, it was quite natural that they should not
stop short till they ended in binding, in the bonds of restriction, not
only the whole country, but all of its parts. Thus we are told that
England first protected by her restrictive policy, her whole empire
against all the world, then Great Britain against the colonies, then
the British islands against each other, and ended by vainly
attempting to protect all the great interests and employment of the
state by balancing them against each other. Sir, such a system,
carried fully out, is not confined to rival nations, but protects one
town against another, considers villages, and even families as rivals;
and cannot stop short of “Robinson Crusoe in his goat skins.” It takes
but one step further to make every man his own lawyer, doctor,
farmer, and shoemaker—and, if I may be allowed an Irishism, his
own seamstress and washerwoman. The doctrine of free trade, on the
contrary, is founded on the true social system. It looks on all
mankind as children of a common parent—and the great family of
nations as linked together by mutual interests. Sir, as there is a
religion, so I believe there is a politics of nature. Cast your eyes over
this various earth—see its surface diversified by hills and valleys,
rocks, and fertile fields. Notice its different productions—its infinite
varieties of soil and climate. See the mighty rivers winding their way
to the very mountain’s base, and thence guiding man to the vast
ocean, dividing, yet connecting nations. Can any man who considers
these things with the eye of a philosopher, not read the design of the
great Creator (written legibly in his works) that his children should
be drawn together in a free commercial intercourse, and mutual
exchanges of the various gifts with which a bountiful Providence has
blessed them. Commerce, sir, restricted even as she has been, has
been the great source of civilization and refinement all over the
world. Next to the Christian religion, I consider free trade in its
largest sense as the greatest blessing that can be conferred upon any
people. Hear, sir, what Patrick Henry, the great orator of Virginia,
whose soul was the very temple of freedom, says on this subject:—
“Why should we fetter commerce? If a man is in chains, he droops and bows to
the earth, because his spirits are broken, but let him twist the fetters from his legs,
and he will stand erect. Fetter not commerce! Let her be as free as the air. She will
range the whole creation, and return on the four winds of heaven to bless the land
with plenty.”
But, it has been said, that free trade would do very well, if all
nations would adopt it; but as it is, every nation must protect itself
from the effect of restrictions by countervailing measures. I am
persuaded, sir, that this is a great, a most fatal error. If retaliation is
resorted to for the honest purpose of producing a redress of the
grievance, and while adhered to no longer than there is a hope of
success, it may, like war itself, be sometimes just and necessary. But
if it have no such object, “it is the unprofitable combat of seeing
which can do the other the most harm.” The case can hardly be
conceived in which permanent restrictions, as a measure of
retaliation, could be profitable. In every possible situation, a trade,
whether more or less restricted, is profitable, or it is not. This can
only be decided by experience, and if the trade be left to regulate
itself, water would not more naturally seek its level, than the
intercourse adjust itself to the true interest of the parties. Sir, as to
this idea of the regulation by government of the pursuits of men, I
consider it as a remnant of barbarism disgraceful to an enlightened
age, and inconsistent with the first principles of rational liberty. I
hold government to be utterly incapable, from its position, of
exercising such a power wisely, prudently, or justly. Are the rulers of
the world the depositories of its collected wisdom? Sir, can we forget
the advice of a great statesman to his son—“Go, see the world, my
son, that you may learn with how little wisdom mankind is
governed.” And is our own government an exception to this rule, or
do we not find here, as every where else, that
“Man, proud man,
Robed in a little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep?”
I confess I feel anxious for the fate of this measure, less on account
of any agency I have had in proposing it, as I hope and believe, than
from a firm, sincere and thorough conviction, that no one measure
ever presented to the councils of the nation, was fraught with so
much unmixed good, and could exert such powerful and enduring
influence in the preservation of the union itself and upon some of its
highest interests. If I can be instrumental, in any degree, in the
adoption of it, I shall enjoy, in that retirement into which I hope
shortly to enter, a heart-feeling satisfaction and a lasting consolation.
I shall carry there no regrets, no complaints, no reproaches on my
own account. When I look back upon my humble origin, left an
orphan too young to have been conscious of a father’s smiles and
caresses; with a widowed mother, surrounded by a numerous
offspring, in the midst of pecuniary embarrassments; without a
regular education, without fortune, without friends, without patrons,
I have reason to be satisfied with my public career. I ought to be
thankful for the high places and honors to which I have been called
by the favor and partiality of my countrymen, and I am thankful and
grateful. And I shall take with me the pleasing consciousness that in
whatever station I have been placed, I have earnestly and honestly
labored to justify their confidence by a faithful, fearless, and zealous
discharge of my public duties. Pardon these personal allusions.
Speech of John C. Calhoun,