Environmental Bio Exam #3

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What is the number one use of water world wide?

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Agriculture

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What percent of the earth's water is freshwater?

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3

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What is the number one use of domestic water in the united states?

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Toilet flushing

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What percent of the earth's water is generally available for drinking water?

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1

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The water table is

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The top of the groundwater

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Water high in sewage could have

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Coliform bacteria

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Secondary wastewater treatment involves

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Bacteria, Aeration, and A sludge digester

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Desalination is

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removing salt and other minerals from seawater, expensive and uses a large amoung of energy, and a method used largely in the Middle East

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An example of non-point source pollution would be

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agricultural runoff

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In the Gulf of Mexico, the plummeting condition of low oxygen levels is called

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hypoxia

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An excess of nitrogen and phosphorus causes

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eutrophication

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When bottom sediments enter the water column they cause

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turbidity

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U.S. federal legislation that regulated industrial and municipal point source pollution is

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Clean Water Act

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Dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico are caused by

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eutrophication, runoff pollution, and hypoxia

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Strategies to restore the Gulf of Mexico include

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restore riparian areas, implement better regulation of industrial point source pollution, and implement precision fertilizer application

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A mass of rubble created from surface mine blasting such as in mountaintop mining is called

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Overburden

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Which of the following is the correct coal production procedure?

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Coal is sent to a furnace, water is heated in pipes, steam is produced to spin a turbine and generate electricity

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Coal is actually

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A fossil fuel, Originally peat, and Ancient plant remains

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The capture and storage of CO2 in a way that prevents it from reentering the atmosphere in coal burning is called

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Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS)

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What is being done to reduce the negative effects of mining and burning coal?

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Reclamation and CCS

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A drilling technique that involves explosive charges to create fractures in rock then injecting mass quantities of pressurized water and chemicals into the fractures to free oil and natural gas

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Fracking

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Hydrocarbons formed from the remains of dead organisms over many years are

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Oil, Coal, and Fossil fuels

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Which of the following is an environmental cost of oil?

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Oil spills, Air pollution, Habitat loss, and Wildlife disruption

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Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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Compared to coal, fracking produces less CO2 and uses less water and energy than conventional oil and gas wells

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Which of the following statements is NOT true about processing crude oil?

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Many of the products of distillation are called petrochemicals, Crude oil is refined to a variety of chemical products by heating it in a tower, and Different size carbon compounds vaporize at different temperatures and are collected as separate products

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A symptom of asthma, a chemical marker of airway inflammation is

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NO2

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Indoor air pollution is a greater problem in

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poorly developed countries and Africa and South East Asia

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Which of the following is secondary air pollutant

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sulfuric acid

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With particulate matter, which of the following statements is true?

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particles smaller than 2.5um are the most dangerous because they can penetrate cells and particles between 2.5 and 10um can collect and irritate respiratory tissue

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Prenatal exposure to __________ is linked to birth defects.

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polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

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Which of the following is NOT a primary air pollutant?

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all of the above are primary air pollutants

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An air pollutant formed when primary air pollutants react with each other or chemicals

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secondary air pollutant

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The greenhouse gases, the molecules in the atmosphere that absorb heat and reradiate it back to earth are

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Nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and CFCs

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Which of the following is not evidence for climate change?

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Decrease in storms

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Which of the following statements is true?

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When ice melts... As ice melts... and As exposed water absorbs sunlight...

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Which of the following is a NEGATIVE FORCER having a cooling effect?

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Aerosols

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Which of the following are species' responses to a changing climate?

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Flowering plants are blooming earlier, Some species are moving to higher altitudes, and Some species are moving to higher latitudes

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Which of the following would be an example of high-level radioactive waste in a nuclear power plant?

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The spent fuel uranium pellets and The radioactive by-products created in fission reactions

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The U.S. Nuclear Waste Policy Act assigned responsibility for nuclear waste disposal to the federal Department of Energy which help determine the underground repository storage site we have now which is

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Yucca Mountain in Nevada

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The costly expenses involved with nuclear power plants are with

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Building a nuclear power plant and Decommissioning a nuclear power plant

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What is made of boron or graphite and is used in the nuclear reactor to slow down or speed up the reaction?

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Control rods

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What is mined and produces a yellow cake for nuclear fuel production?

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Uranium

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The use of fossil fuels is projected to decline in the next 50 years as the use of renewable energy sources increases.

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False

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Which of the following renewable energy sources contributes the largest proportion of energy worldwide?

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Biomass

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of sustainable energy sources?

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They all must have no environmental impact.

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Solar technologies that capture heat without any electronic or mechanical assistance are called:

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passive solar technologies

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Which of the following is not an advantage that solar and wind power share?

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The most inexpensive renewable technologies to install

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While geothermal power plants need to be built near sources of underground heat such as hot springs, geothermal heat pumps can be installed in any homes built on land.

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True