What has urban renewal tended to achieve?
Correct answer A. Moved residents but not improved conditions
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A lake becomes polluted, its fish die and its algae give off unpleasant odours. Which description applies?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What does thinning of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere lead to?
Correct answer C. Climate changes
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What are the oil supplies of the United States subject to?
Correct answer C. Environmental depletion
Which statement correctly describes natural resources?
Correct answer D. Finite
In developing countries, which factor tends to discourage the use of birth control?
Correct answer A. Traditional values
What was the most striking change that followed each technological revolution?
Correct answer D. A dramatic increase in population
Where does the majority of the world’s population live?
Correct answer B. Eurasia
How are death rates defined?
Correct answer D. Defined as the number of deaths per 1000 people per country per year
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Zero population growth means that?
Correct answer A. The number of births equals the number of deaths in a country in a given year
What is meant by an ecosystem?
Correct answer A. The way living things interact and interrelate with each other and their environments
What will probably have to happen before ecological problems can be solved?
Correct answer B. Cultural values will have to change
Which two factors are said to have created problems that endanger the environment?
Correct answer B. Overpopulation and urban life
Under the former US census definitions, what were metropolitan areas with a population of at least 1 million called?
Correct answer B. CMSAs (Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas)
What does a Micropolitan Statistical Area consist of?
Correct answer C. One urban cluster of at least 10,000 but less than 50,000 population
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What are social institutions?
Correct answer C. Are ingrained patterns of behaviour representing solutions to universal human needs
Which of these is an example of a basic pivotal institution?
Correct answer D. The family
How does the family, and marriage in particular, bind its members together?
Correct answer D. Legal and economic bonds
On what is a kinship system based?
Correct answer C. Common descent
In some cultures a woman may have several husbands at the same time. What is this custom called?
Correct answer A. Polyandry