GED 108 Latest Final Exam 2023-2024
1) The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment primarily characterized human impact on:
C) ecosystem services
2) The Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007 concluded that global climate change is
caused at least in part by the:
A) human use of fossil fuels to generate electricity and power engines
3) Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributes to global warming by:
A) transmitting visible light and absorbing infrared radiation
4) The Doha Round of WTO meetings have failed to reach agreement about:
C) farm subsidies and trade barriers
5) The classical economic paradigm and the new ecological economic paradigm differ in the way
that:
A) each views the land, either as a resource within the human economy (classical) or as
something that encompasses the economy (ecological)
, 6) The ecological economic paradigm argues that the environment encompasses the economy
D) vital raw materials and ecosystem services and absorb wastes.
7) The ecological economists’ view emphasizes the role of:
C) natural ecosystems.
8) In some deserts, there are mice and lizards that are about the same size. The mice eat grains
and the lizards feed on insects. Given this information, we would expect that the biomass of
the:
B) lizards would be greater than the mice.
9) Why are there so few ecosystems with more than four levels of consumers?
A) because biomass decreases by about 90% at each trophic level moving up
10) The information of an energy pyramid reveals that:
A) it is expensive and inefficient to get most of your dietary calories from meats.
11) Modern civilization and population growth had their origins in which revolution?
D) Neolithic Revolution
12) More efficient technologies, better urban and regional planning, policy and industrial
changes will be required to drive which revolution?
D) Environmental Revolution
13) Name the two most recent of the revolutions affecting the global human population.
A) Green Revolution and Environmental Revolution
14) The transition from high death rates to low death rates in population is a result of the :
1) The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment primarily characterized human impact on:
C) ecosystem services
2) The Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007 concluded that global climate change is
caused at least in part by the:
A) human use of fossil fuels to generate electricity and power engines
3) Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributes to global warming by:
A) transmitting visible light and absorbing infrared radiation
4) The Doha Round of WTO meetings have failed to reach agreement about:
C) farm subsidies and trade barriers
5) The classical economic paradigm and the new ecological economic paradigm differ in the way
that:
A) each views the land, either as a resource within the human economy (classical) or as
something that encompasses the economy (ecological)
, 6) The ecological economic paradigm argues that the environment encompasses the economy
D) vital raw materials and ecosystem services and absorb wastes.
7) The ecological economists’ view emphasizes the role of:
C) natural ecosystems.
8) In some deserts, there are mice and lizards that are about the same size. The mice eat grains
and the lizards feed on insects. Given this information, we would expect that the biomass of
the:
B) lizards would be greater than the mice.
9) Why are there so few ecosystems with more than four levels of consumers?
A) because biomass decreases by about 90% at each trophic level moving up
10) The information of an energy pyramid reveals that:
A) it is expensive and inefficient to get most of your dietary calories from meats.
11) Modern civilization and population growth had their origins in which revolution?
D) Neolithic Revolution
12) More efficient technologies, better urban and regional planning, policy and industrial
changes will be required to drive which revolution?
D) Environmental Revolution
13) Name the two most recent of the revolutions affecting the global human population.
A) Green Revolution and Environmental Revolution
14) The transition from high death rates to low death rates in population is a result of the :
