Outline the relationship between energy use and global warming.
What will be an ideal response?
Most energy consumed in the United States is produced by burning fossil fuels-such as oil, coal, and natural gas. Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air and is a global problem. Mounting evidence indicates that pollution from burning fossil fuels, primarily carbon dioxide, has increased temperatures worldwide, creating a greenhouse effect-like in a greenhouse, where the walls and roof trap solar heat, warming the inside temperature and not allowing the interior air and heat to escape. Global warming, the gradual average increase in the earth's temperature, is the result of pollution that traps solar heat in the earth's atmosphere.
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What are the advantages of a plea bargain system?
a) Lawyers can concentrate on fewer cases. b) It fulfills a constitutional requirement. c) Cases can move faster through the system. d) The guilty suspects can have a jury trial. e) Suspects can be paroled immediately.
Low rates of voter turnout among Hispanic and Asian American immigrants may occur because they
A) are not yet citizens. B) are uninterested in politics. C) have little to gain. D) are less affluent. E) tend to be older.
Which of the following are important characteristics of scientific research in psychology?
a. operationalism b. control c. replication d. all of the above
Which of the following is not usually considered to be a part of the media?
A. Newspapers B. Television C. Personal correspondence D. Radio E. The Internet