Test: Environment & Society - Humanities/Arts MCQ

The interaction between environment and society

The web of physical and biological systems and processes of which humans are one element

The study of the social interactions of humans

The study of plants and animals in their environment

It produces aridity and flood proneness

It has no impact on the environment

It improves the environment

It enhances the natural features of the environment

Social organization has no impact on the environment

Social organization determines how the environment is managed and used

The environment determines social organization

There is no relationship between social organization and the environment

Capitalistic values

Socialistic values of equality and justice

Traditional values

Individualistic values

Society shapes nature through urbanization and industrialization

Society has no impact on nature

Society adapts to nature

Nature shapes society

Biophysical ecology shapes human interventions

Human interventions shape biophysical ecology

There is no relationship between biophysical ecology and human interventions

Biophysical ecology and human interventions are independent of each other

It has no impact on the ecosystem

It improves the ecosystem

It affects the ecosystem in unprecedented ways

It restores the ecosystem

Society living in a danger-free world

Society using technologies and products that are fully grasped

Society facing risks due to industrialization and fragile management systems

Society insulating itself from environmental crises

Using renewable resources

Using non-renewable resources

Using genetically modified organisms

Using nuclear energy

The release of methane gas into the atmosphere

The release of carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere

The release of Bacillus Thuringiensis into the atmosphere

The release of nuclear radiation into the atmosphere

Techniques used to reduce pollution

Techniques used to extract resources

Techniques used to import genes from one species to another

Techniques used to prevent natural disasters

A disaster resulting from natural processes of the Earth

A disaster caused by global warming

A disaster caused by industrialization

A disaster caused by human intent or negligence

They insulate people from environmental crises

They determine to what extent people can insulate themselves from environmental crises

They do not affect environmental crises

They cause environmental crises

Different social groups standing in different relationships to the environment

The use of genetically modified organisms

The use of industrial technologies

The depletion of resources

Social inequality

Natural processes of the Earth

Industrialization

Global warming