Making a Living MCQ

H. erectus's brain increased about ________ compared to h. habilis's.

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Correct Answer: 30%

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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.

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Correct Answer: True

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A form of cultivation in which a field is cleared by felling the trees and burning the brush is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Both b and c

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Subsistence strategies are the systems through which societies transform the material resources of the environment into_____ .

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Correct Answer: Food

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The way a society transforms _____ resources into food.

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Correct Answer: Environmental

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Yield per person per unit of land is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Productivity

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The number of people inhabiting a given area of land is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Population Density

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Peasants are rural cultivators who produce for_____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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A food-getting strategy that depends on the care of _____ animals.

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Correct Answer: Domesticated

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A form of pastoralism in which _____ move in search of pasture.

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Correct Answer: Both

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Industrialism is a system of production dependent on investments in _____ and information.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Horticulture is the production of plants using a simple, _____ technology; fields are not used continuously.

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Correct Answer: Non mechanized

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Globalization is the integration of _____ into a global network.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Foraging is a food-getting strategy that involves food production or domestication of animals.

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Correct Answer: False

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Efficiency is yield per person per _____ of labor invested.

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Correct Answer: Hour

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Agriculture is a form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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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?

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Correct Answer: Working conditions have stayed about the same.

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What is an effect that industrialism has on agricultural practices?

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Correct Answer: It changes agricultural practices to look more like factories.

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Which factor contributed to the rise in beef consumption in the United States?

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Correct Answer: The expansion of the fast food industry

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What is the economic relationship between the village of Musha and farming?

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Correct Answer: The Egyptian government is heavily involved with regulating Musha’s farming practices.

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Which of the following is most characteristic of agriculture, over other subsistence strategies?

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Correct Answer: The use of irrigation in dry periods or areas

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For every year or two, the Lua’ plant a swidden field and then let it lay fallow for ______ years to regain fertility.

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Correct Answer: 9

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What is the first step to producing food in swidden cultivation?

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Correct Answer: Burning brush

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The Yarahmadzai (and their camels) make a living using which subsistence strategy?

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Correct Answer: Swidden cultivation

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What are the two types of pastoralism?

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Correct Answer: Transhumant and nomadic

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Which of the following was the greatest constraint the physical environment placed on the Pintupi people of Australia?

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Correct Answer: A lack of water

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Which of the following strategies have the Mbuti people of Central Africa used to increase their available resource?

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Correct Answer: They have traded with neighboring tribes.

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Which of the following terms describes how many people inhabit a square unit of land in a given area?

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Correct Answer: Population density

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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?

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Correct Answer: 80%

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Which of the following lists of activities contains only those done by foragers?

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Correct Answer: Fishing, hunting, and collecting food

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The physical environment affects patterns of culture, and in turn, ______.

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Correct Answer: A culture has effects on the physical environment

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