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Environmental Science B Final Exam
Review and Verified Sheet.
1. What types of land are preserved? - Correct Ans: Parks and preserves;
wilderness
2. What law protects farmland from development? - Correct Ans: Farmland
Protection Program
3. What are the results of urban sprawl? - Correct Ans: Heat island
4. What is the most effective way to allow forests to recover from harvesting? - Correct
Ans:
5. What are ways to improve rangeland? - Correct Ans: Reducing overgrazing and
limiting herds to sizes that degrade the land
6. Where do most Americans live? - Correct Ans: Urban areas
7. What is a side effect of heat islands? - Correct Ans: Increased rainfall
8. How do people use land? - Correct Ans: Parks and preserves, urban land, forest
land, rangeland and pasture, cropland
9. What is the minimum population of an urban area? - Correct Ans: 2,500
10. What are the results of urban crisis? - Correct Ans: Can overwhelm
infrastructure (traffic jams, substandard housing, polluted air and water)
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Environmental Science B Final Exam

Review and Verified Sheet.

  1. What types of land are preserved? - Correct Ans: Parks and preserves; wilderness
  2. What law protects farmland from development? - Correct Ans: Farmland Protection Program
  3. What are the results of urban sprawl? - Correct Ans: Heat island
  4. What is the most effective way to allow forests to recover from harvesting? - Correct Ans:
  5. What are ways to improve rangeland? - Correct Ans: Reducing overgrazing and limiting herds to sizes that degrade the land
  6. Where do most Americans live? - Correct Ans: Urban areas
  7. What is a side effect of heat islands? - Correct Ans: Increased rainfall
  8. How do people use land? - Correct Ans: Parks and preserves, urban land, forest land, rangeland and pasture, cropland
  9. What is the minimum population of an urban area? - Correct Ans: 2,
  10. What are the results of urban crisis? - Correct Ans: Can overwhelm infrastructure (traffic jams, substandard housing, polluted air and water)
  1. Why are open spaces in cities important? - Correct Ans: The plants in open spaces absorb carbon dioxide, produce oxygen, and filter out pollutants from air and water
  2. What is the difference between clear cutting and selective cutting? - Correct Ans: Clear cutting: the process of removing all of the trees from an area of land
  3. Selective cutting: the process of cutting and removing only middle-aged or mature trees
  4. What was the first national park? - Correct Ans: Yellowstone
  5. Why should rural areas be preserved? - Correct Ans: Many species will be extinct w/o protected land; provides recreation for people; serve as outdoor classrooms and research laboratories
  6. What designation do areas get to protect habitats? - Correct Ans:
  7. Why is it important to preserve farmlands? - Correct Ans: `
  8. What steps are involved in land use planning? - Correct Ans: Determining where houses, businesses, etc., will be beilt, where protected land will be, best locations for infrastructure
  9. What is reforestation? - Correct Ans: The process by which trees are planted to re-establish trees that have been cut down in a forest land
  10. Why are we not building more nuclear power plants? - Correct Ans: It is difficult to find places to store waste; safety concerns
  11. What is the downside of burning fossil fuels? - Correct Ans: It causes environmental problems
  1. What is a major source of biomass in developing countries? - Correct Ans: Renewable biomass fuels (wood and dung)
  2. How does geothermal energy work? - Correct Ans: They pump heated water or steam from rock formations and use the water or steam to power a turbine that generates electricity
  3. Where is the best place to use geothermal energy? - Correct Ans: Under homes
  4. What is the difference between nonrenewable and renewable energy? - Correct Ans:
  5. How does a hybrid car operate? - Correct Ans: They convert some of the energy of braking into electricity and they store this energy in the battery
  6. Why is hydrogen a good alternative fuel source? - Correct Ans: It does not release pollutants associated with burning fossil fuels and biomass
  7. What is cogeneration? - Correct Ans: The production of 2 useful forms of energy from the same fuel source
  8. What is a heat exchanger? - Correct Ans: A device used to transfer heat between one or more fluids
  9. What percentage of Earth's water is surface water? - Correct Ans: 71%
  10. Where (on the planet) is most of Earth's surface water found? - Correct Ans: lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands
  11. In what form do you find surface water? - Correct Ans: Frozen, liquid
  1. How is ground water related to surface water? - Correct Ans: It is water beneath the Earth's surface
  2. Why is chlorine added in water treatment? - Correct Ans: To prevent bacteria from growing in water
  3. How is water used in industry? - Correct Ans: Used to manufacture goods, dispose of waste, and generate power
  4. How do water management projects help areas without adequate water become habitable? - Correct Ans: All or part of a river can be diverted into canals that carry water across great distances
  5. What are ways to conserve water? - Correct Ans: Drip irrigation systems; recycle water
  6. What are examples of non-point and point source pollution? - Correct Ans: Point source pollution: factory, wastewater treatment plant, leaking oil tanker
  7. Why is polluted groundwater hard to clean up? - Correct Ans:
  8. Where do most of the pollutants in the ocean come from? - Correct Ans: Activities on land
  9. What is the largest U.S. watershed? - Correct Ans: Mississippi River Watershed
  10. Where do most cities get water for household use? - Correct Ans:
  11. What is the cheapest way to provide more fresh water for everyone? - Correct Ans:
  1. What is the primary cause of acid precipitation? - Correct Ans: Burning of fossil fuels
  2. How does the Midwestern and Eastern US contribute to acid precipitation in SE Canada. - Correct Ans: Almost half of the acid precipitation that falls in SE Canada results from pollution produced in Northeastern US
  3. How do sulfur dioxides cause acid precipitation? - Correct Ans: When fossil fuels are burned, they release oxides of sulfur and nitrogen. When the oxides combine with water in the atmosphere
  4. What does carbon monoxide do to the human body? - Correct Ans: It interferes with the blood's ability to carry oxygen
  5. How do cars contribute to air pollution? - Correct Ans: Almost one-third of our air pollution comes from gasoline burned by vehicles
  6. What are examples of secondary pollutants? - Correct Ans: Ground-level ozone
  7. How can you reduce smog in an area? - Correct Ans: Conserve energy; carpool; tires properly inflated
  8. What are the causes of sick building syndrome? - Correct Ans: Buildings that have very poor air quality
  9. What happens in a temperature inversion? - Correct Ans: The warmer air above keeps the cooler air at the surface from moving upward. So, the pollutants are trapped below with the cooler air.
  10. What US activity causes the most air pollution? - Correct Ans: Motor vehicles
  1. Acid precipitation is caused primarily by what? - Correct Ans: Burning of fossil fuels
  2. What is climate? - Correct Ans: It is the long-term prevailing weather conditions at a particular place based upon records taken
  3. What part of Earth receives the most direct sunlight? - Correct Ans: The surface
  4. What temperature changes cause air to circulate? - Correct Ans:
    • Cold air sinks because it is denser than warm air.
    • Warm air rises and it expands and cools as it rises.
    • Warm air can hold more water vapor than cold air can. Therefore, when warm air cools, the water vapor it contains may condense into liquid water to form rain, snow, or fog
  5. What are the greenhouse gases? - Correct Ans: Water vapor, carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, methane and nitrous oxide
  6. What type of air carries more water vapor? - Correct Ans:
  7. How do greenhouse gases contribute to global warming? - Correct Ans: The greenhouse gases trap heat near the Earth's surface
  8. Why is global warming today more critical than warming in the past? - Correct Ans: The rate of heat increases has gotten very rapid in the recent years.
  9. Why are CFCs harmful to the environment? - Correct Ans: They damage the ozone layer
  10. How does UV radiation damage human cells? - Correct Ans: It damages the DNA