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