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Energy Industry Environment Fundamentals
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Subject
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Instructions:
Answer 31 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Means we capture CO2 when it comes out of smokestacks and put it back underground
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Sequestration of CO2
Water vapor
1.1
2. - Created under joint sponsorship of the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - Not itself a scientific research organization - Has 3 working groups that each issue a report every five years on the findings of the latest cl
Anthropogenic
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
20
Greenhouse Effect
3. Warming potential is 300x that of CO2 - Smog
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
Anthropogenic
NOx (nitrous oxide)
Methane
4. 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from...
Law vs. Justice
Anthropogenic
Water vapor
Sea levels
5. When you gain affluence - then you pollute more
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
Antarctica
H2O
6. Addressing environmental problems requires that poverty be reduced. The problems in the Third world come not from a lack of government regulations - but from a lack of freedom t - create - own - trade - and sell property.
NOx (nitrous oxide)
Keys to - Sustainable Development
Cirrus clouds
Greenhouse Effect
7. 95% of Alaskan coastline is available for drilling
60
Inefficiency as pollution
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
8. Takes ____ years for water to - recycle in spring
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
100
Anthropogenic
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
9. Environmentalists use it as a tool to - try to - get companies to - not drill
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
CO2
NOx (nitrous oxide)
10. O The most common greenhouse gas - 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from water vapor
Inefficiency as pollution
Poverty as Pollution
H2O
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
11. Inefficiency is a waste and results in waste - and waste is pollution
NOx (nitrous oxide)
Photosynthesis
Inefficiency as pollution
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
12. IPCC predicts that in the 21st century - increased water runoff in Greenland (from warming) will be offset by an ice buildup in ______ (from more precipitation)
Sequestration of CO2
Antarctica
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
Sea levels
13. Use on car exhaust systems was federally mandated in 1970 by the Clean Air Act - increase N2O emissions - though t - what extent is under debate. They point out that converters reduce emissions of another greenhouse gas - ozone - as well as carbon mo
Poverty as Pollution
1.1
Tragedy of the Commons
Catalytic converters
14. Makes up 367 parts per million of our atmosphere - 95% comes from natural sources and the rest from human sources - Only 5% comes from human activities... snthropogenic (man made) - Very stable molecule and can last in the atmosphere for more than
Photosynthesis
Sequestered/Sequestration
Catalytic converters
CO2
15. When there's n - private ownership - nobody cares about the resource (if its privately owned or not)...we just want the product
Tragedy of the Commons
Poverty as Pollution
Antarctica
Social justice
16. The law is objective ...justice is subjective (we all have our own opinion)
Law vs. Justice
Anthropogenic
100
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17. May let solar energy in while keeping radiated energy from escaping into - space - Water vapor has a net warming effect
Cirrus clouds
1.1
Sequestration of CO2
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
18. Earth's atmosphere is like the car's window like a Car - Sunlight passing through the car's window is absorbed by the interior - heating it and the air inside the car - Some of the heat passes pack through the windows - but some is reflected off the
Greenhouse Effect
Law vs. Justice
Social justice
Zero- sum game
19. Temperature readings at ground- based measuring stations reveal an average warming trend of about ____ degrees F since 1850 after adjusting for the urban heat island effect. About half of this warming has occurred since 1970 - which - t - many scient
1.1
Zero- sum game
Methane
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
20. In US - 70% of man - made nitrous oxide emissions come from the use of ____________ agricultural fertilizers and automobile exhaust - Globally - fertilizers alone account for 70% of all emissions
Nitrogen containing
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Keys to - Sustainable Development
NOx (nitrous oxide)
21. About ___ % of the total human greenhouse impact is due to - methane
20
The offending gases
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
Anthropogenic
22. For me to - win - you have to - lose
Zero- sum game
Tragedy of the Commons
The offending gases
Cirrus clouds
23. Human activity accounts for about ___% of methane emissions - while the rest comes from natural sources such as wetlands
Methane
Sea levels
60
NOx (nitrous oxide)
24. Higher levels of CO2 increase the efficiency of ________ - and raise plant's water- use efficiency by closing the pores through which they loose moisture
60
Inefficiency as pollution
Antarctica
Photosynthesis
25. CO2 - H20 - & Methane let incoming sunlight though - but block some of the infrared energy radiated upward by the sunlight- warmed Earth
Water vapor
Sequestration of CO2
Sequestered/Sequestration
The offending gases
26. The combustible part of the natural gas stream that we get out of the ground - It's 300x more heat- trapping than CO2...book says 25x more powerful a warming agent than CO2 - it has a much shorter life span and its atmospheric concentration is only a
Inefficiency as pollution
Photosynthesis
Keys to - Sustainable Development
Methane
27. Pour people only care about surviving - use inefficient technology
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
Water vapor
Greenhouse Effect
Poverty as Pollution
28. Man - made - It is estimated that CO2 accounts for about 60% of the anthropogenic (or human caused) greenhouse change known as the enhanced greenhouse effect
Keys to - Sustainable Development
Nitrogen containing
Anthropogenic
Greenhouse Effect
29. Along with high temperatures - many scientists expect that anthropogenic global warming will mean a more active water cycle and higher...
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
Sea levels
The offending gases
Antarctica
30. Most often used in court. You _____ the jury (isolate them) so - they don't have outside influence
H2O
1.1
Sequestered/Sequestration
Sea levels
31. Somebody's view of what something should be - When someone tries to - impose their opinion on you
Photosynthesis
Social justice
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
Nitrogen containing