Chapter 6 Student Quiz 1

. Obesity and overweight are effects of

the Green Revolution.

biotechnology.

nutritional transition.

intensive agriculture.

. Anthropologists study diversity of diets, cultural beliefs surrounding food, and complex interactions between nutrition and environment, which means they study foodways

one-dimensionally.

rigidly.

holistically.

to a limited extent.

. The idea that nature must be uninhabited by people

is often put forth by indigenous people.

is the dominant model for administering protected environmental areas.

has been largely discredited by indigenous people and policy makers alike.

has shaped the way humans interacted with nature for thousands of years.

. A cultural landscape is

the concept that all landscapes have been shaped by people.

natural systems based on the interaction of nonliving factors and organisms.

the concept that people have images, knowledge, and concepts of the physical landscape that affect how they will actually interact with it.

the idea that interaction with the environment is a symbolic act.

. In the twentieth century, national parks and nature reserves restricted what for the Maasai?

grazing land

the amount of cattle they could have

the amount of cattle they could sell

water

. An approach to conservation that assumes people are threatening to nature is referred to as

complimentary ecology.

environmental anthropology.

fortress conservation.

anthropogenic landscape.

. The population an area can support is its

artifactual landscape.

cultural landscape.

ecosystem.

carrying capacity.

. Pastoralism is

the search for edible things.

raising and maintaining herds of animals.

small-scale agriculture.

large-scale farming, which uses a lot of inputs.

. Thomas Malthus argued that

the earth can sustain a large amount of people if technology is used correctly.

population growth will eventually lead to famine.

native people do not know how to take care of farmland.

we should not have private property.

. If a community practiced animal husbandry they might have any of the following animals except

goats.

cattle.

rhinos.

horses.

. The specific vein of environmental anthropology that studies the relationship between humans and natural ecosystems is known as __________ anthropology.

terra

anthropogenic

landscape

ecological

. Ethnobiology refers to the study of

how people in non-Western societies name and codify living things.

the biological sciences.

how biology influences culture.

how people influence biological diversity.

. Which of the following was not a force that drove the Green Revolution?

agricultural research

technology transfer

infrastructure development

the collapse of communism

. Which of the following refers to the cultivation of gardens or small fields to meet the basic needs of a household?

horticulture

swidden agriculture

foraging

husbandry

. An anthropologist interested in foodways would be least interested in a __________ as a field site.

farmers' market

cooking school

grocery store

truck stop

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