Making a Living MCQs
Making a Living MCQs
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1: The physical environment affects patterns of culture, and in turn, ______.
A. A culture has effects on the physical environment
B. A culture cannot modify the physical environment
C. A culture will succeed or fail based on the physical environment
D. Cultures in the same environment will always look the same
2: Which of the following lists of activities contains only those done by foragers?
A. Fishing, hunting, and collecting food
B. Plowing, collecting food, and hunting
C. Hunting, collecting food, and fishing
D. Collecting food, fishing, and plowing
3: Preindustrial societies like Rome or ancient China made extensive use of farming tools in order increase food production. Despite this, what proportion of the population was still directly involved in food production?
A. 50%
B. 66%
C. 80%
D. 99%
4: Which of the following terms describes how many people inhabit a square unit of land in a given area?
A. Efficiency
B. Productivity
C. Population density
D. Arithmetic population
5: Which of the following strategies have the Mbuti people of Central Africa used to increase their available resource?
A. They have invented new tools to modify the soil.
B. They have traded with neighboring tribes.
C. They have applied for government assistance.
D. They have developed a strict code of tribal ethics.
6: Which of the following was the greatest constraint the physical environment placed on the Pintupi people of Australia?
A. A lack of water
B. A lack of sun
C. A lack of fertile soil
D. A lack of wildlife
7: What are the two types of pastoralism?
A. Wild and domesticated
B. Horticulture and agriculture
C. Transhumant and nomadic
D. Hunting and gathering
8: The Yarahmadzai (and their camels) make a living using which subsistence strategy?
A. Pastoral nomadism
B. Swidden cultivation
C. Foraging
D. Horticulture
9: What is the first step to producing food in swidden cultivation?
A. Planting seeds
B. Burning brush
C. Turning over soil
D. Praying to the gods
10: For every year or two, the Lua’ plant a swidden field and then let it lay fallow for ______ years to regain fertility.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 6
D. 9
11: Which of the following is most characteristic of agriculture, over other subsistence strategies?
A. The use of simple tools in planting
B. The use of irrigation in dry periods or areas
C. The use of animal husbandry
D. The decreased need for human labor
12: What is the economic relationship between the village of Musha and farming?
A. The people of Musha started farming in the 1980s.
B. Most of Musha’s household income comes from farming.
C. The Egyptian government is heavily involved with regulating Musha’s farming practices.
D. Many of Musha’s residents have taken to pastoral subsistence in recent years.
13: Which factor contributed to the rise in beef consumption in the United States?
A. The expansion of the fast food industry
B. A rise in the cost of grain
C. More Americans have started practicing pastoralism
D. A decline in preference for eating poultry
14: What is an effect that industrialism has on agricultural practices?
A. It causes more people to become farmers.
B. It has no effect on agricultural practices.
C. It decreases agricultural yields.
D. It changes agricultural practices to look more like factories.
15: Upton Sinclair wrote an exposé of the meat packing industry in 1906, showing how terrible working conditions exploited and demeaned workers. How has the meat packing industry changed since then?
A. Working conditions have improved dramatically.
B. Working conditions have stayed about the same.
C. Working conditions have only gotten worse.
D. Workers have been replaced by meat packing robots.
16: Agriculture is a form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using _____
A. Plows
B. Animals
C. Techniques of soil and water control
D. All of these
17: Efficiency is yield per person per _____ of labor invested.
A. Minute
B. Hour
C. Day
D. Week
18: Foraging is a food-getting strategy that involves food production or domestication of animals.
A. True
B. False
19: Globalization is the integration of _____ into a global network.
A. Resources
B. Labor
C. Capital
D. All of these
20: Horticulture is the production of plants using a simple, _____ technology; fields are not used continuously.
A. Mechanized
B. Non mechanized
C. Both
D. None
21: Industrialism is a system of production dependent on investments in _____ and information.
A. Machinery
B. Technology
C. Communication
D. All of these
22: A form of pastoralism in which _____ move in search of pasture.
A. Whole social group
B. Animals
C. Both
D. None
23: A food-getting strategy that depends on the care of _____ animals.
A. Domesticated
B. Wild
C. Both
D. None
24: Peasants are rural cultivators who produce for_____
A. The subsistence of their households
B. Integrate into larger, complex state societies
C. Their personal use
D. Both a and b
25: The number of people inhabiting a given area of land is known as_____
A. Population Area
B. Population Density
C. Population Volume
D. All of these
26: Yield per person per unit of land is known as_____
A. Activity
B. Productivity
C. Efficiency
D. All of these
27: The way a society transforms _____ resources into food.
A. Traditional
B. Artificial
C. Naturally Derived
D. Environmental
28: Subsistence strategies are the systems through which societies transform the material resources of the environment into_____ .
A. Food
B. Shelter
C. Clothes
D. All of these
29: A form of cultivation in which a field is cleared by felling the trees and burning the brush is known as _____
A. Slash cultivation
B. Slash and Burn Cultivation
C. Swidden Cultivation
D. Both b and c
30: A form of pastoralism in which herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available is known as Transhumant Pastoralism.
A. True
B. False
31: H. erectus's brain increased about ________ compared to h. habilis's.
A. 70%
B. 90%
C. 30%
D. 50%
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