Week 11 Practice Quiz: Insights on the Anthropocene

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3/29/23, 6:29 PM Week 11 Practice Quiz : 202301 - Reading Our World - 74645 https://learn.ontariotechu.ca/courses/21063/quizzes/48604 1/8 Week 11 Practice Quiz Due No due date Points 20 Questions 20 Time Limit None Allowed Attempts Unlimited Instructions Attempt History Attempt Time Score KEPT Attempt 4 2 minutes 20 out of 20 LATEST Attempt 4 2 minutes 20 out of 20 Attempt 3 1 minute 2 out of 20 Attempt 2 2 minutes 18.83 out of 20 Attempt 1 1 minute 13.08 out of 20  Correct answers are hidden. Submitted Mar 29 at 6:29p.m. This is a practice quiz for Week 11 of the course. It is not worth any marks in the course and you may complete it as many times as you would like. Take the Quiz Again 1 / 1 pts Question 1 The Holocene was a geological period that marked the end of the last ice age. True

3/29/23, 6:29 PM Week 11 Practice Quiz : 202301 - Reading Our World - 74645 https://learn.ontariotechu.ca/courses/21063/quizzes/48604 2/8 False 1 / 1 pts Question 2 There has been a debate among scholars over when the Anthropocene began. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 3 Ecological crisis in the Anthropocene has the potential to lead to socio- economic collapse. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 4 The Anthropocene: requires a new vision of sustainable development

3/29/23, 6:29 PM Week 11 Practice Quiz : 202301 - Reading Our World - 74645 https://learn.ontariotechu.ca/courses/21063/quizzes/48604 3/8 requires an reorientation of human rights around ecology requires a new ethic of ecocentrism cannot be fixed or undone by ecocentric laws is not environmentally damaging as scientists think 1 / 1 pts Question 5 Most of the energy that powers air conditioning systems comes from fossil fuels, the use of which warms the planet, which over time will necessitate more and more conditioning of air. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 6 Air conditioning, like so much else in the Anthropocene, has become a background hum that reshapes our lives around engineering more comfortable temperatures at the expense of a warming climate. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 7

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3/29/23, 6:29 PM Week 11 Practice Quiz : 202301 - Reading Our World - 74645 https://learn.ontariotechu.ca/courses/21063/quizzes/48604 4/8 Scientists agree that the Anthropocene describes a new period of human alteration of the environment and Earth True False 1 / 1 pts Question 8 One of the pros of the Anthropocene is higher standards of living for people on average. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 9 The Anthropocene is characterized by the use of non-renewable resources. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 10

3/29/23, 6:29 PM Week 11 Practice Quiz : 202301 - Reading Our World - 74645 https://learn.ontariotechu.ca/courses/21063/quizzes/48604 5/8 In the Anthropocene, humans began to adapt the environment to our needs in an accelerated manner. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 11 Some of the cons of the Anthropocene include: increased wealth inequality mass extinctions and a loss of biodiversity human induced climate change all of the above 1 / 1 pts Question 12 The Anthropocene marks an intense break from the past characterized by the intense acceleration of human technology used to alter the environment. True False

3/29/23, 6:29 PM Week 11 Practice Quiz : 202301 - Reading Our World - 74645 https://learn.ontariotechu.ca/courses/21063/quizzes/48604 6/8 1 / 1 pts Question 13 One of the pros of the Anthropocene is collective learning. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 14 Apocalyptic rhetoric only emerged during the Anthropocene. True False NOTE - the answer is FALSE, this question was updated on March 31. AR 1 / 1 pts Question 15 The central feature of apocalyptic rhetoric is that it uses narrative to express an inherent sense of pessimism. True False

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3/29/23, 6:29 PM Week 11 Practice Quiz : 202301 - Reading Our World - 74645 https://learn.ontariotechu.ca/courses/21063/quizzes/48604 7/8 1 / 1 pts Question 16 To prevent another global outbreak of a zoonotic disease, Inayatullah & Black (2020) recommend: a global ban on wet markets and trade in wildlife punishment and imprisonment of wet market farmers sensitivity to the issue that cross-cultural difficulties of telling specific nations and cultures what food they are permitted to harvest better policies and interventions for infectious disease management increased efforts to detect disease, even earlier, especially in areas of increased risk of emergence and disease spillover. 1 / 1 pts Question 17 The majority of zoonotic pathogens have emerged as a result of changes to food production, agriculture, land use and contact with wildlife. True False

3/29/23, 6:29 PM Week 11 Practice Quiz : 202301 - Reading Our World - 74645 https://learn.ontariotechu.ca/courses/21063/quizzes/48604 8/8 1 / 1 pts Question 18 The fear of pandemic and disease is not new, or exclusive to the Anthropocene. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 19 It is possible that the COVID-19 pandemic may result in a global health awakening, and one that might work to address climate change in another technological revolution. True False 1 / 1 pts Question 20 Scientists agree that the COVID-19 pandemic is connected to anthropogenic, or human, efforts to control and manage the Earth's environment and resources.. True False

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