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Energy Industry Environment Fundamentals
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Subject
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engineering
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. 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
Photosynthesis
Poverty as Pollution
Antarctica
2. The law is objective ...justice is subjective (we all have our own opinion)
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
1.1
Social justice
Law vs. Justice
3. CO2 - H20 - & Methane let incoming sunlight though - but block some of the infrared energy radiated upward by the sunlight- warmed Earth
Sequestered/Sequestration
The offending gases
60
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
4. Warming potential is 300x that of CO2 - Smog
Antarctica
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
NOx (nitrous oxide)
Photosynthesis
5. - 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
Zero- sum game
CO2
Law vs. Justice
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
6. 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
Antarctica
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Sequestered/Sequestration
7. Somebody's view of what something should be - When someone tries to - impose their opinion on you
Anthropogenic
Sequestered/Sequestration
Social justice
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
8. Pour people only care about surviving - use inefficient technology
Poverty as Pollution
NOx (nitrous oxide)
1.1
The offending gases
9. O The most common greenhouse gas - 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from water vapor
Sequestered/Sequestration
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
H2O
100
10. Environmentalists use it as a tool to - try to - get companies to - not drill
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
Greenhouse Effect
Keys to - Sustainable Development
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
11. When you gain affluence - then you pollute more
CO2
Poverty as Pollution
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
Greenhouse Effect
12. Takes ____ years for water to - recycle in spring
100
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
1.1
Sequestered/Sequestration
13. 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
CO2
Catalytic converters
Social justice
Sequestration of CO2
14. 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
H2O
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Law vs. Justice
Nitrogen containing
15. About ___ % of the total human greenhouse impact is due to - methane
Water vapor
Antarctica
20
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
16. 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.
Sea levels
Keys to - Sustainable Development
60
20
17. 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
Poverty as Pollution
Social justice
Sea levels
Methane
18. 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)
Tragedy of the Commons
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Antarctica
Photosynthesis
19. Means we capture CO2 when it comes out of smokestacks and put it back underground
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Sequestration of CO2
Anthropogenic
CO2
20. Most often used in court. You _____ the jury (isolate them) so - they don't have outside influence
Sequestered/Sequestration
Inefficiency as pollution
20
Greenhouse Effect
21. For me to - win - you have to - lose
Zero- sum game
60
Inefficiency as pollution
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
22. May let solar energy in while keeping radiated energy from escaping into - space - Water vapor has a net warming effect
Methane
Antarctica
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
Cirrus clouds
23. Inefficiency is a waste and results in waste - and waste is pollution
1.1
Sea levels
100
Inefficiency as pollution
24. 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
60
Catalytic converters
Zero- sum game
Photosynthesis
25. 95% of Alaskan coastline is available for drilling
NOx (nitrous oxide)
Water vapor
Keys to - Sustainable Development
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
26. When there's n - private ownership - nobody cares about the resource (if its privately owned or not)...we just want the product
Anthropogenic
Methane
Antarctica
Tragedy of the Commons
27. Along with high temperatures - many scientists expect that anthropogenic global warming will mean a more active water cycle and higher...
Photosynthesis
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Sequestration of CO2
Sea levels
28. Human activity accounts for about ___% of methane emissions - while the rest comes from natural sources such as wetlands
60
Social justice
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Nitrogen containing
29. 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
H2O
Water vapor
Anthropogenic
Keys to - Sustainable Development
30. Higher levels of CO2 increase the efficiency of ________ - and raise plant's water- use efficiency by closing the pores through which they loose moisture
20
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
Sea levels
Photosynthesis
31. 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from...
Water vapor
Antarctica
Keys to - Sustainable Development
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act