A sample of water that is 99.9999 percent pure contains 0.0001 percent impurities. Consider from Chapter 1 that a glass of water contains on the order of a trillion trillion (1 × 1024 ) molecules
If 0.0001 percent of these molecules were the molecules of some impurity, about how many impurity molecules would this be?
A) 1000 (one thousand: 1 × 103)
B) 1,000,000 (one million: 1 × 106)
C) 1,000,000,000 (one billion: 1 × 109)
D) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million trillion: 1 × 1018)
D
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Ground level ozone is
A. not regulated. B. found only in rural areas. C. a significant source of air pollution and contributes to the formation of smog. D. a significant source of air pollution and contributes to the increase in the ozone hole.
Which of the following is “nature” or “natural” according to Aristotle?
a. A wooden bed made by a human b. A dam made by a beaver c. Hives made by bees d. Fires made by spontaneous combustion
Which of the following large river systems has the greatest annual flow?
a. Mississippi b. Nile c. Yangtze d. Amazon e. Volga
Michigan (MI) and Wisconsin (WI) both border Lake Michigan. Both states pollute Lake Michigan and both states suffer the consequences of the pollution. However, the two states face a prisoner's dilemma of the sort studied in Chapter 12. Each country must decide whether to protect or not to protect Lake Michigan from pollution. The payoffs from the choices are shown in the table below. From the table, we know that if Wisconsin chooses to protect the lake, Michigan will choose to ______ the lake. If Wisconsin chooses to not protect the lake, Michigan will choose to ______ the lake
A. protect, protect B. not protect, protect C. protect, not protect D. not protect, not protect