The amount of land and ocean needed to provide the resources for one person and absorb his/her wastes defines the
A) carbon footprint.
B) demographic impression.
C) environmental footprint.
D) resource capacity.
C
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What happens when there is a sharp rise in the extinction rate that greatly exceeds the background rate?
What will be an ideal response?
In the open sea, tsunami waves ____
A) have a much shorter wave height than they do when they reach the shore B) have a much larger wave height than they do when they reach the shore C) have a very short wave period D) frequently destroy ships that pass over them
Suspicious that their household drinking water from a well was somehow being contaminated with gasoline, a family living in a farmhouse investigated possible sources of groundwater contamination Sure enough, the underground storage tanks for gasoline at a nearby filling station were leaking. Promising to pay to fix the problem, the station owners sealed the gas tank and pumped out the contaminated groundwater. After several months of rain, the groundwater supplies were restored and the water in the well was safe to drink. This situation illustrated an example of
A) reverse osmosis refinement. B) maximum containment remuneration. C) groundwater remediation. D) well-water containment.
The net seaward flow of water in a partially mixed estuary is nearly uniform over depth.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)