3.T Training Materials: Final Quiz Sections 1 3 (original) (raw)
Quiz "Sections 1-3"
(Please write down your answers in a notebook or a white sheet and compare them with the answers enlisted at the end of this section.There can be one or several correct answers)
1.- What is a parameter?
a) A combination of scenarios that represents the coherent development of a system along a certain trajectory
b) The suite of possible actions that set a pathway on a certain trajectory
c) The conditions that a modeler establishes before the model is run to make predictions on, for example, causality chains and changes in specific parameters of the model according to the selected scenarios
d) A constant in model simulations except when it is changed for a specific scenario (i.e. the modeler decides on its value before running the model) - this is an input of the model
e) A model state which results from the model’s computations (i.e. the modeler does not decide on its value before the model is run) - this is an outcome of the model
2.- What is a variable?
a) A combination of scenarios that represents the coherent development of a system along a certain trajectory
b) The suite of possible actions that set a pathway on a certain trajectory
c) The conditions that a modeler establishes before the model is run to make predictions on, for example, causality chains and changes in specific parameters of the model according to the selected scenarios
d) A constant in model simulations except when it is changed for a specific scenario (i.e. the modeler decides on its value before running the model) - this is an input of the model
e) A model state which results from the model’s computations (i.e. the modeler does not decide on its value before the model is run) - this is an outcome of the model
3.- What is a scenario?
a) A combination of scenarios that represents the coherent development of a system along a certain trajectory
b) The suite of possible actions that set a pathway on a certain trajectory
c) The conditions that a modeler establishes before the model is run to make predictions on, for example, causality chains and changes in specific parameters of the model according to the selected scenarios
d) A constant in model simulations except when it is changed for a specific scenario (i.e. the modeler decides on its value before running the model) - this is an input of the model
e) A model state which results from the model’s computations (i.e. the modeler does not decide on its value before the model is run) - this is an outcome of the model
4.- What is a pathway?
a) A combination of scenarios that represents the coherent development of a system along a certain trajectory
b) The suite of possible actions that set a pathway on a certain trajectory
c) The conditions that a modeler establishes before the model is run to make predictions on, for example, causality chains and changes in specific parameters of the model according to the selected scenarios
d) A constant in model simulations except when it is changed for a specific scenario (i.e. the modeler decides on its value before running the model) - this is an input of the model
e) A model state which results from the model’s computations (i.e. the modeler does not decide on its value before the model is run) - this is an outcome of the model
5.- What are assumptions?
a) A combination of scenarios that represents the coherent development of a system along a certain trajectory
b) The suite of possible actions that set a pathway on a certain trajectory
c) The conditions that a modeler establishes before the model is run to make predictions on, for example, causality chains and changes in specific parameters of the model according to the selected scenarios
d) A constant in model simulations except when it is changed for a specific scenario (i.e. the modeler decides on its value before running the model) - this is an input of the model
e) A model state which results from the model’s computations (i.e. the modeler does not decide on its value before the model is run) - this is an outcome of the model
6.- If the targeted food consumption of your calculator is 2,200 kcal/cap/day and the food waste at the household level represents 30%, the total market supply needs to correspond to an average consumption level of how many kcal/cap/day?
a) 2,200
b) 3,500
c) 3,142
d) 2,777
e) 2,500
7.- Which of the following is true regarding how the FABLE Calculator models imports and exports?
a) Imports are computed based on total consumption (endogenous), while exports are exogenous
b) Both imports and exports are exogenous
c) Both imports and exports are endogenous
d) Exports are endogenous and expressed in 1000 tons because the determinants of the demand outside the country are not represented in the model
e) Exports are endogenous while imports are exogenous
8.- How are the High and Low productivity growth scenarios different?
a) They are the same, except for the High productivity growth scenario, the historical growth rate is multiplied by -0.5 if the historical growth rate was negative, whereas in the Low productivity growth scenario, the historical growth rate will be multiplied by -1 if it was negative
b) In the High productivity growth scenario, the historical growth rate will be multiplied by -1 if it was negative, by 2 if it was below 1%, and by 0.7 if it was above 1%.
c) In the Low productivity growth scenario, the historical growth rate is multiplied by -0.5 if the historical growth rate was negative, by 0.5 if it was lower than 1%, and by 0.1 if it was higher than 1%.
d) none of the above
e) Both b) and c) are correct
Answers:
1.- d) A constant in model simulations except when it is changed for a specific scenario (i.e. the modeler decides on its value before running the model) - this is an input of the model
2.- e) A model state which results from the model’s computations (i.e. the modeler does not decide on its value before the model is run) - this is an outcome of the model
3.- b) The suite of possible actions that set a pathway on a certain trajectory
4.- a) A combination of scenarios that represents the coherent development of a system along a certain trajectory
5.- c) The conditions that a modeler establishes before the model is run to make predictions on, for example, causality chains and changes in specific parameters of the model according to the selected scenarios
6.- c) 3,142
7.- a) Imports are computed based on total consumption (endogenous), while exports are exogenous
8.- e) Both b) and c) are correct