Test 1

Question 1

The amount of space available for a newspaper or TV news story

Answer 1

News hole

Question 2

The economic interest of media owners

Answer 2

Political Economy

Question 3

A key historical period in US environmentalism that focused on wilderness as an American asset

Answer 3

Nationalism

Question 4

A realm of influence created when individuals engage others in communication

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Public Sphere

Question 5

Metaphors, Synecdoche, and Irony are examples of

Answer 5

Rhetorical or Literary Tropes

Question 6

The essential quality of character of something

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Nature

Question 7

The intertwined relationship between global warming and social injustice

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Climate Justice

Question 8

According to Pezzullo and Cox, _____ is a symbolic action

Answer 8

Human Communication

Question 9

The pragmatic and constitutive vehicle for our understanding of the environment as well as our relationships to the natural world

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Environmental Communication

Question 10

A discourse that has gained broad or taken-for-granted status in a culture

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Dominant Discourse

Question 11

The democratic inclusion of people and communities in the decisions that affect their health and well-being

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Environmental Justice

Question 12

The news media tell us what to think about

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Agenda Setting Theory

Question 13

Egoistic, Altruistic, and Biospheric are examples of

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Environmental News Value

Question 14

A conflict or disagreement that signals a recognition that there is a limit to a widely shared idea (status quo)

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Antagonism

Question 15

A pattern of knowledge and power communicated through linguistic and nonlinguistic human expression

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Discourse

Question 16

1962 book by Rachel Carson about DDT that sparked the modern environmental movement

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Silent Spring

Question 17

Editors and managers decide what stories get covered

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Gatekeeping

Question 18

The idea that media messages are communicated as stories rather than facts

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Narrative Framing

Question 19

Argued for the maintenance of certain wilderness areas and the protection of them from harm

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US “preservation” movement

Question 20

Where the deepwater horizon oil spill occurred

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Gulf of Mexico

Question 21

The norm of balanced reporting of information, and shows that the prestige press’s adherence to balance actually leads to biased coverage

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Balances Bias

Question 22

A controversy that falsely argued that emails showed that global warming was a scientific conspiracy, scientists manipulated data and attempted to suppress critics

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ClimateGate

Question 23

Prominence, Timeliness, Proximity, Magnitude, Conflict, Oddity, Emotional Impact

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Newsworthiness

Question 24

Cognitive maps or patterns of interpretation that people use to understand their understanding of reality

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Communication Frames

Question 25

The gap between intentions and fulfillment of those intentions

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Attitude behavior gap (green gap)

Question 26

According to the "six americas" study by Yale University and George Mason University, Americans are becoming more concerned about

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Global Warming

Question 27

Technical demands of topic stress the reporting process

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Challenge of media reporting risk

Question 28

Infographics, search engines, and wayfinding information such as a map or escape plans are all examples of what

Answer 28

Information design

Question 29

Hazard + Outrage =

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Risk

Question 30

False information that is purposefully spread to mislead people

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Disinformation

Question 31

The evaluation of the degree of harm or danger from some condition such as exposure to a toxic chemical

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Risk assessment

Question 32

Our brains love looking at

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Pictures or Visuals

Question 33

Raw data visualized in a way that permits the viewer to make their own conclusion

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Data visualization

Question 34

An event designed to challenge the status quo

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Mind bomb

Question 35

A word or phrase (or visual) that stirs vivid impressions involving the listeners most basic values

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Condensation symbol

Question 36

Nurturing doubt in the public's perception of scientific claims and thereby delaying calls for action

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Trope of uncertainty

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Fabricated information that mimics news media content in form but not in organizational process or intent

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Fake news

Question 38

Something that is obvious, visible, and coming right at you with large potential impact and highly probable consequence

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White Rhino

Question 39

Involving the affected public in assessing risk and designing risk communication campaigns

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Cultural model of risk communication

Question 40

A campaign that urges consumers not to buy a particular product/service

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Boycott

Question 41

A rhetorical constraint that shapes or inhibits the making of news that require journalists simplify or make maps of the world to communicate their stories

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Media Frame

Question 42

An act of hearing and seeing oral and written evidence through first-hand experience

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Witnessing

Question 43

A move to democracy to "rule by experts"

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Technocracy

Question 44

An industrial chemical used to make certain plastics and resins since the 1950s

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BPA

Question 45

Judgement of harms or danger that a society or specific populations are willing to accept or not

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Acceptable risk

Question 46

Discussion groups in the research that produced the 7 principles of CC communication favored 'authentic' images over ____

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Staged photos

Question 47

Organized opposition to climate change action in the United States

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Denialism

Question 48

Ed Maibach's 5 talking points for CC communication are : experts agree, its real, its us, its bad, and _____

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its solvable

Question 49

Any public or private communication that informs individuals about the existence, nature, form, severity, or acceptability of risk

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Risk communication

Question 50

The large-scale nature of risks and potential for irreversible threats to human life from modernization

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Risk society