Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences - Environmental Geography And Geology" QuizDoc 5

Active Solar description

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Answer: same principles as passive system except they use fluid to absorb heat solar collector positioned on the roof of building heat the fluid then pumped through pipes and heat the whole building

The disposal layer at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site is

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A. tuff.
B. bedded salt.
C. granite.
D. basalt.

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Answer: B

Deep disposal wells for toxic liquid wastes must never extend down to the water table.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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False

Ocean disposal of dredge spoils may cause water-turbidity problems and release toxic metals into seawater.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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True

Stewardship and sustainability imply that:

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A. sacrifice talk is unwarranted
B. resources are renewable and can never be depleted
C. people will ensure that resources are available for future generations through wise use now
D. perpetual use of resources will lead to their degradation
E. human ingenuity will conquer all

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Answer: C. people will ensure that resources are available for future generations through wise use now

One benefit carbon taxes have over cap and trade agreements is that the tax:

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A. Lends uncertainty to energy prices, which will drive fossil fuel industries to divest
B. is easy to calculate & could be applied to all carbon emitting practices
C. Increases the ability to "game the system
D. Would reduce emissions from every form of energy end-use

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Answer: D. Would reduce emissions from every form of energy end-use

The Clean Water Act protects water from non-point-source pollution.

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A. True
B. False

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Answer: False, it protects from point source

The term that strictly refers to animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling, storage, preparation, or consumption of food:

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A. solid waste
B. trash
C. garbage
D. refuse

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Ans: C. garbage

Waste is a large contributor to climate change due to the GHG emission associated with landfilling or incineration. Landfills are the 3rd largest source of which GHG?

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A. water vaopr
B. VOCs
C. carbon dioxide
D. methane

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Answer: D. methane

Dead Zones are caused by ____ that introduce(s) nitrogen and phosphorus into aquatic ecosystems. These nutrients lead to algal blooms and subsequent hypoxic conditions when the _______drop below the level necessary to sustain most animal life. The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is caused by this phenomenon.

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A. ocean acidification; pH levels
B. non-point source runoff; dissolved oxygen levels
C. point source polluters; CO2 levels
D. volcanic eruptions; pH levels

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Answer: B. non-point source runoff; dissolved oxygen levels

Family Planning includes all of the following:

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A. education about STDs and birth control
B. medical services for STDs and birth control
C. social services
D. all of the above/following

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Ans: D. all of the above/following

The process by which the environment produces resources that we need for our survival, but often take for granted.

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Answer: Ecosystem Services

Environmental sustainability is the use of natural resources leading to their availability for only one or two generations.

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A. True
B. False

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Answer: B. False

No evidence of life has been found in the Precambrian.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: b. false

The leading theory for the mass extinction 65 million years ago is a huge meteorite hitting the earth in the area of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: a. true

The Principle of _____ states that fossil organisms succeed each other in a definite and determinable order.

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A) Fossil Preservation
B) Fossil Assemblage
C) Vertical Evolution
D) Fossil Succession
E) Superposition

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Answer: D) Fossil Succession

The Principle of _____ states that in an undeformed sequence of sedimentary rocks, each bed is older than the one above and younger than the bed below.

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A) Sequence Stratigraphy
B) Vertical Continuity
C) Original Horizontality
D) Superposition

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Answer: D) Superposition

The largest mass extinction of all time occurred at the end of the _____ Period of the Paleozoic Era.

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A) Permian
B) Pennsylvanian
C) Ordovician
D) Devonian

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Ans: A) Permian

When magma intrudes surrounding rock, a piece of the surrounding rock called a(n) _____ may become dislodged and incorporated into the igneous rock as it cools.

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A) Xenolith
B) Intraclast
C) Erratic
D) Monolith

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Answer: A) Xenolith

Only a small fraction of plants and animals become fossils.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: b. false

The _____ Period is known for the explosion of multicellular hard-shelled lifeforms such as trilobites.

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A) Permian
B) Pleistocene
C) Triassic
D) Cambrian

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Answer: D) Cambrian

The mass extinctions that occured about 251 million years ago may have been caused by extensive volcanic activity.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: a. true

In petrified wood, the wood has been replaced with the mineral _____.

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A) calcite
B) feldspar
C) marble
D) amber
E) chert

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Ans: E) chert

The Principle of _____ refers to the fact that sedimentary beds originate as continuous layers that extend in all directions until they eventually grade into another sediment type or thin out.

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A) Horizontal Continuity
B) Original Horizontality
C) Lateral Continuity
D) Sequence Stratigraphy
E) Lateral Position

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Answer: C) Lateral Continuity

Correlation is the process of establishing the equivalence of rocks of similar age in different areas.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: a. true

In a(n) _____ older strata dip at a different angle than that of younger beds.

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A) Nonconformity
B) Angular Unconformity
C) Misformity
D) Disconformity

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Answer: B) Angular Unconformity

Jet streams contribute to the movement of air masses from one region to another.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: a. true

A pool of warm, moist air remains aloft after a midlatitude cyclone has dissolved.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: a. true

An air mass that forms under warm, moist conditions will contain more moisture than an air mass that forms under cool, moist conditions.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: a. true

When a cold front has overtaken a warm front in a midlatitude cyclone, it is referred to as occluded.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: a. true

Weak low-pressure troughs in equatorial regions lead to the development of easterly waves.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: a. true

Descending air at the ITCZ moves poleward and ascends at the subtropical high to move heat and moisture poleward.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: b. false

A warm front is a front where cold air moves into a region of warm air.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: b. false

A midlatitude cyclone may contain warm and cold fronts, but not stationary fronts.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: b. false

Hurricanes in the Atlantic always move westward pushed by the trade winds and then curve south and southwest.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: b. false

The greatest wind speeds occur in the center of jet streams, with velocities decreasing away from the center.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: a. true

Surface winds tend to be quite strong at the ITCZ because of the strong rising air currents.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: b. false

During an El Niño event, upwelling along the Peruvian coast is strengthened.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: b. false

Land breezes flow from land to water during the night.

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a. true
b. false

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Ans: a. true

Winds are designated according to the compass point from which winds come. For example, a wind from the north is called a north wind.

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a. true
b. false

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Answer: a. true

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