SOCIAL IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY
If you embrace transition theory, you’d say the main factor in the reduction of death rates is?:
a) Expanded access to education
b) Preventative health care
c) Accessible pediatric care
d) Improved technologies in food production
In a growing population, the rate of _______ increase equals the birth rate minus the death rate plus net migration?:
a) natural b) total
c) specified d) internal
Four major rives flow from the decreasing snow melt of the Himalayan mountains. If you are a resident of northern India, which of these four rivers is mostly likely to threaten food production?:
a) The Indus
b) The Yangtze
c) The Mekong
d) The Ganges
We find perennial grasses and flowing plants called forbs in _______ grasslands?:
a) savannah
b) tropical
c) temperate
d) derived savannah
Which of these technological advances is associated with the development of writing?:
a) the domestication of animals
b) the development of agriculture
c) Iron smelting
d) Horticulture
As an ecologist I’ve been patiently observing Grable pond and its surrounds to better understand the unique patterns of interactions between the flora and fauna that live there. I am studing a/an?:
a) Habitat
b) Ecoregion c) Community d) Ecosystem