QUESTION 1 The collapse of the Grand Banks fishing industry off the coast of New

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QUESTION 1

The collapse of the Grand Banks fishing industry off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada was due to

all of these answers

Canadian goverment subsidies that supported the domestic fishing industry

international demand and enhanced fishing technologies

overfishing by unregulated international fishing companies

QUESTION 2

Hardin’s (1968) “Tragedy of the Commons” idea most accurately refers to

the overexploitation of common access resources by individuals acting in their immediate self interest

the failure of the demographic transition model to predict global population growth

the failure of privatization as an environmental protection policy

the inherent problems of the capitalist exploitation of natural resources

QUESTION 3

Which international accord finally established 200-mile exclusive economic zones (EEZs) extending from a country’s shoreline out to sea?

1982 Law of the Sea

1968 Ocean Management Agreement

Kyoto Protocol

1973 Marine Pollution Convention

QUESTION 4

In the United States, western water law, known as prior-appropriation

ensures that even in dry years everyone gets an equal amount of water

Guarantees equal access to water produced by Bureau of Reclamation projects

allows anyone with property fronting a water source to use that water source

follows the doctrine of “first in time, first in right”

QUESTION 5

Which factor most likely explains the decreasing area of agricultural land in the United States since the 1980s?

Decreasing government subsidies for farmers which has made it more difficult to farm profitably

An increase in community gardens and urban agriculture which has reduced the need for large-scale, industrial farms

Environmental challenges such as droughts in California and dust storms on the Great Plains

Urbanization and the conversion of farmland to residential, commercial, and industrial land uses

QUESTION 6

Which of the following was not one of the five factors identified by Jared Diamond (1997) that tipped the competitive advantage away from hunting/gathering and toward settled agriculture and food production about 10,000 years ago? Choose one.

rising populations and population densities that required more intensive food production

development of technologies for harvesting, collecting, processing, and storing foods

A decline in the availability of wild foods

higher populations of settled food producers that killed or displaced hunter/gatherers

longer life expectancies and higher levels of education for settled food producers

An increase in the availability of domesticable wild plants

  

QUESTION 7

The Green Revolution (GR)

had no impact on farming techniques in the LDCs

was an unequivocal success

was successful at increasing crop yields but resulted in many externalities

was an unequivocal failure

  

QUESTION 8

By the 1960s, water engineers and scientists using dendrochronologies concluded that the average flow of the Colorado River was

likely to increase as “rain would follow the plow”

much lower than originally thought

precisely the same as what was originally thought

much higher than originally thought

all of these answers

Canadian goverment subsidies that supported the domestic fishing industry

international demand and enhanced fishing technologies

overfishing by unregulated international fishing companies

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QUESTION 1

all of these answers

QUESTION 2

the overexploitation of common access resources by individuals acting in their immediate self interest

QUESTION 3

1982 Law of the Sea

QUESTION 4

follows the doctrine of “first in time, first in right”

QUESTION 5

Urbanization and the conversion of farmland to residential, commercial, and industrial land uses

QUESTION 6

longer life expectancies and higher levels of education for settled food producers

QUESTION 7

was successful at increasing crop yields but resulted in many externalities

QUESTION 8

much lower than originally thought

much lower than originally thought

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