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1 | |
Human attempts to suppress affects of the physical landscape merely alter human-environment interaction and cannot stop the physical influences in the human modification of the hydrosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2 | |
During the early 20th century, introduction of human-produced aerosols into an atmosphere already holding significant amounts of natural aerosols seemingly was promoting which climatic change? |
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| | A) | icebox effect |
| | B) | global warming |
| | C) | both "A" and "B" |
| | D) | neither "A" nor "B" |
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3 | |
When did the concern for a return to an ice age climate become replaced with emphasis upon the possibility of global warming? |
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| | A) | 1920s |
| | B) | 1940s |
| | C) | 1960s |
| | D) | 1980s |
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4 | |
There is no question that the role of humans is the principal cause of global warming. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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5 | |
One of the reasons for skepticism about the data on global warming is because of how some weather recording stations are sited in places that have developed __________________. |
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| | A) | rural heat islands |
| | B) | suburban cooling islands |
| | C) | urban heat islands |
| | D) | rural cooling islands |
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6 | |
Who would be most severely impacted by global warming and climate change? |
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| | A) | developed world |
| | B) | newly industrializing countries (NICs) |
| | C) | developing world |
| | D) | "A" and "B" |
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7 | |
Raising the height of smokestacks to reduce local pollution in industrial areas and around power plants did what away from the source of the pollution relative to acid rain? |
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| | A) | decreased it |
| | B) | remained the same |
| | C) | increased it |
| | D) | answer not given |
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8 | |
Acid rain damages lakes, fish, and soils but has no significant impact upon either natural vegetation or crops. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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9 | |
Acid rain in North America originates in locations in the United States but not in Canada. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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10 | |
At what level of the atmosphere is the accumulation of ozone, not its depletion, a major problem? |
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| | A) | upper-to-middle level |
| | B) | middle-to-lower level |
| | C) | lower-to-ground level |
| | D) | accumulation of ozone is not a problem anywhere in the atmosphere |
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11 | |
What is the major source of photochemical smogs? |
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| | A) | power plant emissions |
| | B) | motor vehicle exhaust fumes |
| | C) | toxic waste disposal sites |
| | D) | oil refineries |
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12 | |
Relative to the negative impact of tropical deforestation, it would be which of the following that would be most adversely affected? |
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| | A) | maintenance of the global oxygen and carbon balance |
| | B) | global climate in terms of temperature |
| | C) | loss of significant aspects of biodiversity |
| | D) | global climate in terms of precipitation |
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13 | |
Soil erosion in tropical areas is not accelerated when the rainforest is removed. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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14 | |
Desertification is most significant in these areas. |
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| | A) | arid |
| | B) | semiarid |
| | C) | temperate |
| | D) | "A" and "B" |
| | E) | "B" and "C" |
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15 | |
Desertification is only a recent phenomenon in human habitations of the Earth. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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16 | |
Which of the following agriculture practices is a means to promote soil conservation? |
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| | A) | crop rotation |
| | B) | fallowing |
| | C) | terracing |
| | D) | all of the above |
| | E) | none of the above |
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17 | |
Soil erosion is only an agricultural problem. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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18 | |
Water is what type of resource? |
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| | A) | renewable |
| | B) | non-renewable |
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19 | |
It seems that the following is a valid premise about spatial patterns of availability of water: the lower a region's average amount of precipitation, the yearly variability of precipitation is ________________. |
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| | A) | lesser |
| | B) | stable |
| | C) | greater |
| | D) | fluctuating |
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20 | |
The greatest amount of usage of freshwater is for ______________. |
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| | A) | domestic needs |
| | B) | recreation |
| | C) | industry |
| | D) | irrigated agriculture |
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21 | |
The shift from simple landfills to sanitary landfills took place in the United States during the ________________. |
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| | A) | 1940s |
| | B) | 1950s |
| | C) | 1960s |
| | D) | 1970s |
| | E) | 1980s |
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22 | |
Incineration can be a waste-to-energy option for the handling of certain forms of garbage. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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23 | |
Ocean dumping of garbage was a common practice for handling garbage that finally reached the stage of serious environmental concern because of local and international water pollution in the __________. |
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| | A) | 1990s |
| | B) | 1980s |
| | C) | 1970s |
| | D) | 1960s |
| | E) | 1950s |
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24 | |
The most serious form of toxic wastes is that which is radioactive. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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25 | |
As recently as 1998, which of the following nation-states continues to be a major toxic waste exporter? |
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| | A) | Australia |
| | B) | United States |
| | C) | Germany |
| | D) | all of the above |
| | E) | none of the above |
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