What type(s) of building(s) and monument(s) is(are) most susceptible to acid damage? - Answers
limestone and marble
In the real world, many factors determine the numbers of organisms in any one population. Yet, a
"superfly" with unlimited food and no mortality would show what type of growth? - Answers
exponential growth
Conservation biologists refer to the number of individuals needed for long-term survival as - Answers
the minimum viable population size.
The demographic transition refers to a country's change from - Answers high birth and death rates to
low birth and death rates.
Lead is dangerous because it acts as a(n) - Answers neurotoxin.
The most dangerous airborne particulates are those that are - Answers small enough to be drawn
into the lungs.
The greatest future growth in human numbers is expected to occur in the - Answers developing
nations.
Which of the following types of population curves would best represent a group of elephants that
enter a new, open habitat and become a stable part of that ecosystem? - Answers S-shaped curve
In general, life expectancy - Answers rises with increased annual income, but only up to about
$10,000.
Life expectancy is the - Answers number of years an individual of a certain age will probably live.
T/F: Increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide resulting from human activities appear
to be producing climatic warming. - Answers True
The Keeling graph, although it has yearly oscillations, shows that the concentration of CO2 in the
atmosphere________. - Answers Question 12 options:
is steadily rising
Pronatalist pressures are influences that lead people to - Answers have more children.
Malthus argued that ________ is the ultimate cause of social and environmental problems, and Marx
argued that population growth ________ social and environmental problems. - Answers excess
population growth; results from
T/F: When a population overshoots its carrying capacity, resources become limited and death rates
rise. - Answers True
The I = PAT formula says that our environmental impacts (I) are the product of - Answers the
population size times affluence and the technology used to produce goods and services consumed.
Women who________ are LEAST likely to have many children. - Answers are able to earn an income
for themselves
You are studying an organism that is fairly large, matures slowly, lives fairly long, and cares for its
offspring. This organism probably has a(n) ________ population growth strategy - Answers K-adapted
Which developed nation has not signed the Kyoto Protocol? - Answers USA
In general, countries with the highest fertility rates are those - Answers among the poorest on earth.
The main cause of world population growth in the past 300 years has been - Answers falling mortality
due to longer life expectancy.
Logistic growth rates are those in which a population - Answers grows rapidly when conditions are
good, then slows as it approaches carrying capacity.
Anthropogenic means - Answers produced by humans.
Oysters spawn hundreds of thousands of eggs and sperm into the water column. Some of these eggs
will be fertilized and grow to be larvae. Oysters do not participate in rearing or protecting their
offspring. Which life history strategy best describes the oyster? - Answers R-selected species
T/F: Surfaces that reflect energy have a high albedo. - Answers True
Carbon dioxide is a major factor in the global warming story since it - Answers absorbs more infrared
radiation than it emits.
Less developed countries can best argue that developed countries are primarily responsible for
overpopulation problems because - Answers less developed countries were many times
impoverished by colonialism.
Of the 20 hottest years ever recorded,________ of them occurred since 1980. - Answers 19
The economist Karl Marx believed that - Answers human population growth is a consequence of
poverty and other social ills.