Which of these statements is correct?
Correct answer B. Global warming is the rise in average temperature at Earth's surface
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Which of the following is not part of ecological modernisation theory?
Correct answer D. Environmental protection and economic growth are incompatible aims
Which of these vehicles emits the most carbon per passenger per kilometre?
Correct answer A. Single-occupancy light truck
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In current climate change debates, which group is least likely to be accused of exaggerating the need for global action?
Correct answer A. Fossil fuel corporations
Why are GM crops different from anything that existed before?
Correct answer A. They involve transplanting genes between different organisms
Which of the following has been raised as a criticism of the sick role?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Which perspective stresses that patients are not passive but active participants who often strongly wish to see a doctor?
Correct answer A. Interactionist perspective
What restricted urbanisation in preindustrial cities?
Correct answer A. Reliance on animal power as a source of energy
In which type of city does religion become fragmented, with greater openness to new faiths?
Correct answer C. Postindustrial city
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With which approach are Robert Park and Ernest Burgess associated?
Correct answer A. Urban ecology
Which group of sociologists notes that developers, bankers and other powerful property interests treat housing as an investment, focused on profit rather than solving social problems?
Correct answer B. New urban sociologist
What is the crude birth rate?
Correct answer D. Is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year
What is the increase or decrease caused by immigration and emigration per 1,000 members of a population in a given year called?
Correct answer D. Net migration rate
Which statement about a population pyramid is accurate?
Correct answer C. A population pyramid portrays the sex and age composition of a population
What did Marx argue about population?
Correct answer C. An excess of the working-class population depends on the availability of employment opportunities not on fixed supply of food
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What do supporters of the family planning approach to reducing fertility argue?
Correct answer C. If contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility
Which of the following is NOT a factor in whether people define a situation as crowded?
Correct answer A. The sex and race of individuals present
Which statement about global cities is accurate?
Correct answer B. Global cities are major urban centres of commerce on which corporations rely
Which statement about segregation is accurate?
Correct answer D. Segregation is the process by which natural areas are formed by the clustering of individuals or groups on the basis of common traits or activities
Which perspective treats the ecological environment as an ecosystem that tends towards equilibrium?
Correct answer D. The functionalist perspective