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