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