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Chapter 14 Practice Quiz
The Environment
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What is the term used in the textbook to describe non-sociological attempts to individualize responsibility for the Walkerton water contamination issue rather than addressing systemic faults and causes?
Rotten apple approach
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Tainted barrel approach
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Bobbing for apples approach
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Bad orchard approach
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Apple pie approach
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About 90 per cent of patents for genetically modified plants are owned by which company?
Monsanto
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Dow Chemicals
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Thetford Mines
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Saskatchewan Potash Corporation
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Reed Paper Company
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Which term could be used to describe the scientists employed by the Scientific Division of the US Tobacco Institute who published studies downplaying the dangers of second-hand smoke?
Vested scientists
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Scientific mercenaries
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Environmental scientists
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Ecologists
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Environmental sociologists
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Which term describes the study of public health, specifically the incidence and spread of diseases in a population?
Social ecology
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Intersectionality
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Epidemiology
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Environmental sociology
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Social biology
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The Monsanto plant in Anniston, Alabama produced a dangerous chemical compound that endangered the health of its workers—most of whom were black—and contaminated the water in the predominantly African-American neighbourhoods surrounding the plant. What term can be applied to Monsanto's actions?
Social environmentalism
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Ecological environmentalism
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Social ecology
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Environmental ecology
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Environmental racism
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What percentage of the people of Walkerton, Ontario became ill from
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10 per cent
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25 per cent
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40 per cent
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50 per cent
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75 per cent
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If a mining company responds to concerns about the safety of white asbestos by stating that it is much safer than blue asbestos, this is an example of what kind of logical fallacy?
Red herring
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Ad hominem
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Appeal to the stone
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Appeal to probability
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Ecological fallacy
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What was the cause of Simon Fobister's death who was chief of the Grassy Narrows First Nation?
Senility
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Drugs
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Alcohol
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Political brutality
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Mercury poisoning
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What did the University of British Columbia researchers find in the 10 Environmental Impact Assessments conducted in BC?
Findings of significant impacts were exceedingly rare
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Findings of significant impacts are minimal
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Findings of significant impacts are probable
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Findings of significant impacts are noticeable
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Findings of significant impacts are within limit
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Which influential Canadian sociologist studied the Halifax explosion of 1917?
C. Wright Mills
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John Porter
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Dorothy Smith
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Samuel Henry Prince
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Harold Innis
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The case of Dr John O'Connor spoke about the health impacts of Fort McMurray's oil sands project on the Aboriginal community of Fort Chipewyan.
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Asbestos is acknowledged to be a cause of lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis.
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Even though Anastasia Shkilnyk accomplished so much for the Indigenous community in Grassy Narrows, there is little Indigenous voice in her work.
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Thetford Mines is the world's largest producer of asbestos.
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Canada became a major producer of asbestos in 1879 when it was first mined in British Columbia.
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The "China price" refers to China's competitive advantage in the manufacture and assembly of goods due to its exploitation of workers and the environment.
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University researchers are generally not quite reliable when it comes to environmental issues.
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The rise of piracy off the Somali coast is primarily due to the decline of ocean food resources as a result of global warming.
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Grant (2015) found that Canada no longer imports any products that contain asbestos.
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According to Marx, the worse capitalism got, with the shrinking of the bourgeoisie and the growth of the proletariat to include a falling middle class, the more likely capitalism would collapse altogether, ushering in the communist revolution.
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