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Living in The Environment Canadian 3rd Edition Miller Test Bank
Living in The Environment Canadian 3rd Edition Miller Test Bank
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. How many years has the species homo sapiens lived on Earth?
a. 4000 years
b. 12 000 years
c. 30000 years
d. 60 000 years
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 22
TOP: 2-1-CULTURAL CHANGES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
BLM: Remember
5. Which statement is NOT characteristic of relationships between early hunter-gatherers and the
environment?
a. Population size was low.
b. They exploited their environment for food and other resources.
c. They caused major environmental impacts.
d. They used potentially renewable resources.
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 22 BLM: Remember
10. What was probably NOT a characteristic of the first agricultural communities?
a. slash-and-burn cultivation
b. specialized farming of one crop
c. subsistence agriculture
d. shifting cultivation
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 23 BLM: Remember
14. What is NOT a change that occurred as a result of the shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural
societies?
a. specialized occupations and long-distance trade
b. increased competition for resources
c. equal work distribution among people
d. growth of villages
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 23 BLM: Remember
THE SCANDAL.
THE CLAIMS.
“If you would ‘secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity,’ there must be some place reserved in which, and upon
which, posterity can exist. What will the blessings of liberty be worth
to posterity if you give up the country to the Chinese? If China is to
be the breeding-ground for peopling this country, what chance of
American posterity? We of this age hold this land in trust for our race
and kindred. We hold republican government and free institutions in
trust for American posterity. That trust ought not to be betrayed. If
the Chinese should invade the Pacific coast with arms in their hands,
what a magnificent spectacle of martial resistance would be
presented to a startled world! The mere intimation of an attempt to
make conquest of our western shore by force would rouse the nation
to a frenzy of enthusiasm in its defense. For years a peaceful, sly,
strategic conquest has been in progress, and American
statesmanship has been almost silent, until the people have
demanded action.
“The land which is being overrun by the oriental invader is the
fairest portion of our heritage. It is the land of the vine and the fig
tree; the home of the orange, the olive, and the pomegranate. Its