Ch. 11- Environment and Population

Question 1

A collective goods dilemma that is created when common environmental assets (such as the world’s fisheries) are depleted through the failure of states to cooperate

Answer 1

Tragedy of the commons

Question 2

The splitting of a common area or good into privately owned pieces, giving individual owners an incentive to manage resources responsibly

Answer 2

Enclosure

Question 3

A slow, long-term rise in the average world temperature caused by the emission of greenhouse gases produced by burning fossil fuels

Answer 3

Global warming

Question 4

A program that monitors environmental conditions and works with the World Meteorological Organization to measure changes in global climate

Answer 4

UN Environment Program

Question 5

Carbon dioxide and other gases that, when concentrated in the atmosphere, act like the glass in a greenhouse, holding energy in and leading to global warming

Answer 5

Greenhouse gases

Question 6

The main intl. treaty on global warming, which entered into effect in 2005 and mandates cuts in carbon emissions. US does not participate

Answer 6

Kyoto Protocol

Question 7

The part of the atmosphere that screens out harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun

Answer 7

Ozone layer

Question 8

An agreement on protection of the ozone layer in which states pledged to reduce and then eliminate use of CFCs. Most successful environmental treaty to date

Answer 8

Montreal Protocol

Question 9

The pattern of falling death rates, followed by falling birth rates, that generally accompanied industrialization and economic development

Answer 9

Demographic transition

Question 10

Describing government policy that encourages or forces childbearing, and outlaws or limits access to contraceptives

Answer 10

Pronatalist