Ecol 172: Socio-ecology Module 3 Quiz

A geographic area belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority.

An area often including a nesting or denning site and a variable foraging range that is occupied and defended by an animal or group of animals.

Improvements in visual perception, ability to stand and move on two feet, freeing of the hands from locomotive functions, alterations in the ability to grasp, and development of a means of communication and/or language.

<p>The capability to solve first-order problems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased capability to solve second-order problems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expansion of geographic area, colonization of diverse ecosystems, mapping out a home range, and demarcation of territories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The area wherein an individual normally lives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the resources the animal requires to survive and reproduce.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amount of space an animal uses on a regular basis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Species niche, size, and density in an area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collecting</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hunting</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fishing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People who live by hunting and gathering food such as wild animals, birds and fish, wild fruits, nuts, mushrooms, edible roots and tubers, and honey from the nests of wild bees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Aborigines of Australia</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Public aid and paid labor</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hunter-gatherers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Low-status laborers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tropical rain forests of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Gabon</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To surrender their lands in favor of commercial and industrial development, and to reject many aspects of their traditional culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They often end up as impoverished and stigmatized welfare recipients.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Communal sharing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Animal owners do not have a permanent place of residence, do not practice regular cultivation, and have families that move with the herds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Animal owners have a permanent place of residence adjacent to which are areas where supplementary cultivation is practiced, although they also travel with their herds to distant grazing areas for long periods of time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Farmers with a permanent place of residence send their herds, tended by herdsmen, for long periods of time to distant grazing areas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This signifies a settled lifestyle with animals kept in enclosed or controlled environments for consistent resource management.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Balance between demographic trends and population movements versus agricultural production.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inappropriate and uncontrolled utilization of resources and increased demand for food and rapid population growth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Application of available, better, and efficient food production techniques</p> Signup and view all the answers