AESC Test 2 Questions with All Correct Answers
What are some advertising tactics? - Answer- Bandwagon, bait and switch, glittering generalities, individuality (normal guy approach), Loaded language
What is implicative advertising? - Answer- Implying that others (competitors) engage in some...
What are some advertising tactics? - Answer- Bandwagon, bait and switch, glittering
generalities, individuality (normal guy approach), Loaded language
What is implicative advertising? - Answer- Implying that others (competitors) engage in
some activity through one's own denial
What is propaganda? - Answer- information, especially of a biased or misleading
nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What was the most devastating agriculture event that last for over ten years? - Answer-
The dust bowl
When was the Dust Bowl? - Answer- 1930-1940
What made the dust bowl even more depression? - Answer- The great depression hit at
the same time.
What caused the Dust Bowl? - Answer- A massive drought that turned uncultivated land
into dust that blew across hundreds of miles.
What was the Grapes of Wrath about? - Answer- A Oklahoma family fleeing the Dust
Bowl to find a new life in California
What were black blizzards? - Answer- Storms that Rose suddenly and made noon look
like midnight; these storms buried fences, seeped into houses, and killed people and
animals.
What was the civilian conservation corporation? - Answer- 1000's of people employed in
hopes of planting crops to preserve and save soil from erosion.
What was king in the 50's? - Answer- Technology
What distracted us from the environment right after the dust bowl in the 1940's? -
Answer- World War 2
, What was Silent Spring? - Answer- book written by biologist Rachel Carson in 1962;
drew public attention to dangers of pesticides
What is a silent spring? - Answer- One day we will kill all the bugs which will starve the
birds and we will hear nothing but a silent spring.
When did widespread environmental awareness occur? - Answer- In the 1960's.... but
no one did anything about it.
When did the cuyahoga river catch fire? - Answer- 1969
Why did the Cuyahoga River catch fire in 1969? - Answer- The river was heavily
polluted with chemicals and oil from nearby factories. These chemicals made the water
flammable
When was the environmental protection act signed? - Answer- January 1st 1970
(signed by Nixon)
When was the Environmental Protection Agency established? - Answer- December of
1970
When was the Clean Air Act passed? - Answer- December 31ST 1970
When was the clean water act passed? - Answer- 1972
What was the Clean Water Act of 1972? - Answer- Allowed criminal penalties for
violating environmental law.
What is eutrophication? - Answer- excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other
body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of
plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
What causes eutrophication? - Answer- excess phosphorus and nitrogen
Who kept small dogs in the early times? - Answer- East Asians and South Americans
Where do horses represent prestige? - Answer- Central america
How many American households have pets? - Answer- 2/3s
What percentage of pet owners believe their pet is a part of the families? - Answer- 63%
Why are dogs and cats so popular? - Answer- They are culturally established
Why don't people keep rats? - Answer- The are associated with disease and death?
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