What is an adverse environmental impact of the mountaintop removal method of coal mining?
A. Subsidence and collapse of the ground
B. Increasing input of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere
C. Acid mine drainage
D. Permanently altered streams and ecosystems
Answer: D
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a. salt dome b. stratigraphic c. volcanogenic d. fault e. anticline
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What will be an ideal response?
A snowline refers to
A) the latitude demarcating the extent of glacial ice during the last glacial maximum. B) the elevation at which snow accumulation ceases, marking the uppermost point of a glacier. C) an isoline demarcating the extent of snow or ice on a weather map. D) the lowest elevation where winter snow accumulation persists throughout the summer. E) the latitude or elevation at which winter snow accumulates each year.
No-till farming would be most beneficial for farmers ________
A) who typically experience minimal soil erosion B) using contour strip cropping C) who plant a cash crop every third year D) with steeply sloped fields E) whose cropland is in the Conservation Reserve Program