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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. Takes ____ years for water to - recycle in spring
100
Water vapor
Sea levels
Social justice
2. Environmentalists use it as a tool to - try to - get companies to - not drill
Catalytic converters
Inefficiency as pollution
The offending gases
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
3. 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
100
Greenhouse Effect
20
Water vapor
4. About ___ % of the total human greenhouse impact is due to - methane
Cirrus clouds
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
NOx (nitrous oxide)
20
5. Means we capture CO2 when it comes out of smokestacks and put it back underground
Tragedy of the Commons
Sequestration of CO2
Social justice
Photosynthesis
6. Pour people only care about surviving - use inefficient technology
Sequestration of CO2
Sea levels
Poverty as Pollution
Zero- sum game
7. 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from...
Antarctica
H2O
Water vapor
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
8. When you gain affluence - then you pollute more
Cirrus clouds
Developing Countries as antitheses of Kuznets curve
Antarctica
Anthropogenic
9. Human activity accounts for about ___% of methane emissions - while the rest comes from natural sources such as wetlands
60
Nitrogen containing
CO2
NOx (nitrous oxide)
10. Inefficiency is a waste and results in waste - and waste is pollution
Sea levels
CO2
Inefficiency as pollution
100
11. May let solar energy in while keeping radiated energy from escaping into - space - Water vapor has a net warming effect
Cirrus clouds
Anthropogenic
Water vapor
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
12. 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
Antarctica
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Cirrus clouds
CO2
13. 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
The offending gases
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
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
Photosynthesis
100
Nitrogen containing
Water vapor
15. Warming potential is 300x that of CO2 - Smog
H2O
The offending gases
NOx (nitrous oxide)
Nitrogen containing
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.
The offending gases
Photosynthesis
Keys to - Sustainable Development
Catalytic converters
17. For me to - win - you have to - lose
Cirrus clouds
Zero- sum game
Catalytic converters
Photosynthesis
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)
Sequestration of CO2
Antarctica
The offending gases
Keys to - Sustainable Development
19. Most often used in court. You _____ the jury (isolate them) so - they don't have outside influence
Greenhouse Effect
Sequestered/Sequestration
Cirrus clouds
Sequestration of CO2
20. Along with high temperatures - many scientists expect that anthropogenic global warming will mean a more active water cycle and higher...
Sequestered/Sequestration
Sea levels
Tragedy of the Commons
Water vapor
21. 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
Catalytic converters
Antarctica
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Tragedy of the Commons
22. The law is objective ...justice is subjective (we all have our own opinion)
Nitrogen containing
Law vs. Justice
Tragedy of the Commons
Keys to - Sustainable Development
23. - 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)
Anthropogenic
Nitrogen containing
Sequestered/Sequestration
24. 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
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
20
100
25. 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
Anthropogenic
Antarctica
Law vs. Justice
20
26. Somebody's view of what something should be - When someone tries to - impose their opinion on you
1.1
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard - Endangered Species Act
Social justice
Antarctica
27. Higher levels of CO2 increase the efficiency of ________ - and raise plant's water- use efficiency by closing the pores through which they loose moisture
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)
1.1
Catalytic converters
Photosynthesis
28. CO2 - H20 - & Methane let incoming sunlight though - but block some of the infrared energy radiated upward by the sunlight- warmed Earth
Tragedy of the Commons
H2O
The offending gases
Methane
29. 95% of Alaskan coastline is available for drilling
1.1
ANWR (Alaskan Wild Natural reserve)
Inefficiency as pollution
H2O
30. 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
Methane
NOx (nitrous oxide)
Cirrus clouds
1.1
31. O The most common greenhouse gas - 94% of the natural greenhouse effect comes from water vapor
H2O
The offending gases
Inefficiency as pollution
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change)