To reduce the extent of this damaging phenomenon, many power plants have been required to install systems to remove and capture sulfur dioxide from their emissions
A) acid rain
B) eutrophication
C) deforestation
D) thermal inversion
E) ozone depletion
A
You might also like to view...
The accompanying figure shows the history of large meteorite impacts on both the earth and the moon. What is the graph's major implication for the origin of life on Earth?
A) Huge impacts make it unlikely that life arose and survived on Earth before about 3.8 billion years ago. B) Meteorites could not have brought the organic molecules that were necessary for life appear. C) The moon is considerably older than the Earth. D) Life must have originated on a different body in the solar system and been brought to Earth. E) The Oparin-Haldane model of life's origins applies to the moon as well as to the Earth.
DNA microarrays (DNA chips) are used to ____
A. cut DNA molecules at specific sites B. clone DNA C. test an individual for a specific genetic disease D. screen an individual's entire genome E. produce human embryos in a laboratory dish
Plants and fungi first became established on land during the
A) Archaean. B) Proterozoic. C) Paleozoic. D) Cenozoic.
While touring the ancient Egypt exhibit at the local history museum, you learn that ancient Egyptians would slash figs in order to stimulate ripening. Based on your knowledge of plant hormones you hypothesize that wounding the figs must release
A. gibberellin. B. abscisic acid. C. indoleacetic acid. D. ethylene. E. cytokinin.