Bell, An Invita琀椀on to Environmental Sociology, 6e
SAGE Publishing, 2021
Chapter 1: Environmental Problems and Society
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following terms best describes the study of community in the largest
possible sense?
A. social ecology
B. environmental sociology
C. ecological dialogue
D. environmental justice
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The interactions and interrelations of people, animals, land, water, and air form a kind
of mutuality of consequence that is referred to as ______.
A. environmental justice
B. ecological dialogue
C. environmental sociology
D. social ecology
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
,Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. That climate change is a dangerous consequence of how we currently organize the
economic side of social life best aligns with which of the following views?
A. idealist
B. constructionist
C. materialist
D. realist
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. According to the text, the mutual and unfinalizable interrelationship of what we see
and feel with what we believe is best described as the ______.
A. social constitution of daily life
B. beauty of ecology
C. ecological dialogue
D. environmental goods and bads
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Ecology of Dialogue
Difficulty Level: Medium
,5. The flourishing of mutual aid through communal ties within and across life forms is
referred to as ______.
A. sustainability
B. environmental justice
C. beauty of ecology
D. environmental sociology
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Which of the following axes of environmental justice concerns what are often called
issues of “sustainability?”
A. justice across time
B. justice across social space
C. justice across species
D. justice across humans
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The temporal myopia referred to as contempocentrism is associated with which axis
of environmental justice?
A. justice across humans
B. justice across social space
, C. justice across species
D. justice across time
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. According to scientists, the blame for global climate change is mostly attributed to
which of the following?
A. groundwater depletion
B. carbon dioxide emission from fossil fuel use
C. photochemical smog
D. fine particulates
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Global Climate Change
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Which greenhouse gas amounts to about half of the other “forcings?”
A. methane
B. nitrous oxide
C. chlorofluorocarbons
D. black carbon
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
SAGE Publishing, 2021
Chapter 1: Environmental Problems and Society
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following terms best describes the study of community in the largest
possible sense?
A. social ecology
B. environmental sociology
C. ecological dialogue
D. environmental justice
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The interactions and interrelations of people, animals, land, water, and air form a kind
of mutuality of consequence that is referred to as ______.
A. environmental justice
B. ecological dialogue
C. environmental sociology
D. social ecology
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
,Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. That climate change is a dangerous consequence of how we currently organize the
economic side of social life best aligns with which of the following views?
A. idealist
B. constructionist
C. materialist
D. realist
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. According to the text, the mutual and unfinalizable interrelationship of what we see
and feel with what we believe is best described as the ______.
A. social constitution of daily life
B. beauty of ecology
C. ecological dialogue
D. environmental goods and bads
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Ecology of Dialogue
Difficulty Level: Medium
,5. The flourishing of mutual aid through communal ties within and across life forms is
referred to as ______.
A. sustainability
B. environmental justice
C. beauty of ecology
D. environmental sociology
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Which of the following axes of environmental justice concerns what are often called
issues of “sustainability?”
A. justice across time
B. justice across social space
C. justice across species
D. justice across humans
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The temporal myopia referred to as contempocentrism is associated with which axis
of environmental justice?
A. justice across humans
B. justice across social space
, C. justice across species
D. justice across time
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Dialogue of Environmental Justice
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. According to scientists, the blame for global climate change is mostly attributed to
which of the following?
A. groundwater depletion
B. carbon dioxide emission from fossil fuel use
C. photochemical smog
D. fine particulates
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Global Climate Change
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Which greenhouse gas amounts to about half of the other “forcings?”
A. methane
B. nitrous oxide
C. chlorofluorocarbons
D. black carbon
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
