ECON 310 Chapter 14 Study Quiz
______1. Activities which are responsible for deforestation of the rain forest include all of the following except
a. timber operations.
b. cutting trees for fuelwood.
c. agro-forest operations.
d. conversion to range land.
______2. Prior to the 1600s the number of extinctions per century was
a. 17.
b. less than 0.1.
c. 5.
d. 0.1.
______3. Granting
the villages long-term harvesting rights
a. creates
an incentive to maintain the productivity of the elephant herd.
b. creates
political problems if the herd ranges across borders.
c. creates
market failure as the village will choose harvest decisions inconsistent with
optimal use of the resource.
d. both
a and b.
______4. As
populations grow, there is continual pressure on the ecosystem. One of the
problems associated with that development is that
a. native
populations lose rights to the resource.
b. private
benefits and costs are not equal to social benefits and costs.
c. markets
have difficulty recognizing the nonmonetary benefits
associated with biodiversity.
d. all
of the above.
______5. Macroeconomic
reasons for loss of habitat and biodiversity include
a. laws
and policies which transfer wealth from one segment of the economy to another.
b. economic
conditions which prevent the country from acting in its own long-term
interests.
c. desires
to obtain development status.
d. all
of the above.
______6. In the United States, the tradition of public access to wild game and fish makes the establishment of private property rights politically unfeasible. The policies which have been adopted to protect from overexploitation include
a. season limits.
b. limits on the number of animals harvested.
c. prohibition from hunting.
d. all of the above.
______7. An example of a demand side approach to protecting biodiversity is
a. allocating ownership of the elephant herd to the tribe.
b. prohibiting hunting of endangered species.
c. publicity campaigns that make it socially unacceptable to use animal products.
d. all of the above.
______8. The arboreal environment provides an ecosystem that is extremely rich in species diversity. Over percent of the world's plant and animal species are found in the rain forest habitat.
a. 10
b. 65
c. 95
d. none of the above
______9. The Endangered Species Act of 1973
a. is designed to prevent species from becoming endangered.
b. prohibits the use of federal funds in a fashion that might further threaten an endangered species.
c. has been used to prevent certain development activities that would result in the destruction of a species.
d. both b and c.
______10. A major criticism of the Endangered Species Act is that it
a. uses monies designated for improvement in infrastructure.
b. it is oriented toward species already in trouble, rather than protecting critically important habitat.
c. has not been reauthorized by Congress.
d. both a and b.
______11. A nongovernmental agency such as the Nature Conservancy can
a. collect money from individuals and direct its use in specific causes.
b. organize similarly minded individuals across the economy.
c. minimize the transaction costs of organizing individual actions.
d. all of the above.