Anth 060H S2024 Midterm Study Guide-1

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Anth 060, Spring 2024 Crisis & Resilence: Past & Future of Human Societies Prof. Patricia A. McAnany Study Guide for Midterm Exam Exam Date: Thursday, March 7, 2022 The midterm exam will be a subset of this study guide. If you study this guide and outline practice answers, you should do well on the midterm exam. The midterm is worth a total of 125 points. You will be asked to answer one of the following three short essay questions (20 points max). The second part of the exam includes two columns of corresponding terms. You will be asked to match seven sets of terms (15 points max for each set of matching terms; more details below). Bring a Blue book to the exam ! Blue books can be purchased at the university bookstore. Essay Questions to Study (outline an answer to each question). 1). While chronicling the response of households in Cape Town, South Africa, to a severe water shortage, Nick Shepard (p. 413) asks whether the challenges of climate change will be met with “new forms of empathy and solidarity” or “the collapse of civil society and the breakdown of social systems?” What do you think? What factors play a role in shaping how societies respond to environmental challenges? Cite two examples from seminar readings to support your position. 2). In the final chapter of Resilience Thinking , Walker and Salt outline nine attributes of resilience thinking and ask the reader to propose a 10 th . What might be a 10 th attribute and why would you add it to the list? 3). Human migration is an ancient response to avoiding hazards that are environmentally or socially induced. Using material from seminar readings, discuss an example of human migration and its roots causes. Does migration continue to be an effective way of lessening the impact of hazards and disasters?

Anth 060, Crisis & Resilience, Study Guide for Midterm Exam 2 Below, there are 10 rows of terms to be matched. The Midterm exam will contain only 7 rows of terms to be matched. For each term in the left column, choose a corresponding term from the right-hand column. In your Blue Book, number your answer and write the two terms. Then compose a few sentences on (1) the meaning of each term, (2) why you have paired them together, and (3) how they relate to crisis & resilience. Note: your answer may be strengthened by citing case studies from course readings. 1. Cogworld conservation 2. Hurricane Katrina end of Ordovician period 3. Response diversity Uniformitarianism 4. Soil unzipping disaster debris 5. Ball-in-a-basin model soil salinization 6. Four phases of the adaptive cycle Bugworld 7. Catastrophism continental land masses 8. 1 st Mass Extinction insecure land tenancy 9. Lake eutrophication slow-moving variables 10. Pangaea extinction of coral reefs

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