The safe movement of hazardous materials by rail or highway in the United States is regulated by

A) individual states and cities.
B) the Department of Transportation.
C) the regulations of the RCRA.
D) the Justice Department.


B

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Normal faults form in response to horizontal, tensional stresses that stretch or elongate the rocks.

a. true b. false

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The mixing ratio = mass of water vapor (grams)/ mass of dry air (kilograms). So if you have 10 grams of water vapor in 100 kilograms of dry air, what is the mixing ratio?

A) 0.01 g/kg B) 0.1 g/kg C) 10 g/kg D) 100 g/kg E) 1 g/kg

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Internalizing external costs

A. involves making the market price approach the true cost of an economic good. B. fails to include the cost of pollution. C. omits the costs of taxes. D. increases the chance for environmental degradation. E. lowers the cost of goods and services.

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The ________ is the rock and sediment beneath our feet, plus Earth's uppermost mantle and crust

A) Lithosphere
B) Hydrosphere
C) Atmosphere
D) Biosphere
E) Stratosphere

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