Tiny Timbers Tree Farm Sells a Variety of Trees for Different

question 49

Multiple Choice

Tiny Timbers Tree Farm sells a variety of trees for different customers. Recently, the company received notice from the Ministry of Natural Resources that a shortage of fir trees is affecting a rare moth population. The government has ruled that tree farms must refrain from cultivating fir trees for business use until further notice. Which element of Tiny Timbers' environment is most directly affected by this ruling?

• A) the economic environment
• B) the global environment
• C) the social environment
• D) the technological environment

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Definitions:

Enolate

An anion formed by the deprotonation of an alpha-hydrogen of a carbonyl compound, important in many organic reactions.

Haloform Reaction

A chemical reaction where a haloform is produced by the halogenation of methyl ketones in the presence of base.

2-Pentanone

An organic compound with the formula C5H10O, a ketone with a five-carbon chain, with the carbonyl group at the second carbon.

Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky Reaction

A chemical reaction used for the halogenation of carboxylic acids at the α position.