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Environmental Final Exam--Part II
Environmental Final Exam--Part II
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Review for the final exam
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1
What term classifies an item that can be broken down by natural processes?
Biomass
Biodegradable
Biome
Biology
2
What does it mean to reuse waste?
No matter how awful, keep using it.
Use something again.
Use less of something
Re-purpose something
3
What is a non-infectious disease?
Resist drought, pests, and contain nutrients
Contracted from a bacteria or virus and is transmissible
Comes from ancient organisms living millions of years ago
Results from a toxin and is not transmissible
4
Why are plastics so difficult to break down?
Due to the demand from public for recycled goods.
There are not enough plastic eating organisms in the U. S.
They are man-made and made from petroleum
Because you need a knife to cut them
5
What does more plastic in packaging generate?
The need for sharper scissors to open the packaging
More human waste
Fresher objects
A shortage of plastic
6
Why was “bloodletting” popular in the past?
A lack of technology and understanding of the human body.
Dracula reigned in Transylvania
The Red Cross did not hold blood drives
Blood letting is fictional--only in books and movies
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How can farmland be degraded?
Lack of available healthcare
Over grazing, erosion, overuse of fertilizer
It failed Environmental Science
Habitat loss of draining swamps and wetlands
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What does it mean to reduce waste?
Generate less waste
Use something again
Re-purpose something for a new use.
Compact it
9
Why are diseases spreading from animals to humans?
Animals are resistant and the diseases need new hosts
Because humans are infecting their pets
Because Humans do not wash their hands
People are living closer to ecosystems causing habitat loss
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What is aquaculture?
Farming seafood
Animals mistakenly eat or become tangled in plastic debris.
Anything from a plant, paper, cotton
Fish going to the symphony.
11
How was malaria controlled during WWII?
No troops were sent into areas with malaria.
Removed all the trees
Draining wetlands and swamps and used pesticides
Made sure there were plenty of hospitals near the troops
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What prevents food from being distributed to people?
The green revolution
Demand for recylced goods
Drought, corrupt government, war
Habitat loss of draining swamps and wetlands.
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What causes world hunger?
Drought, poverty, inequitable distribution of food
Farming seafood.
Habitat loss of draining swamps and wetlands.
The green revolution
14
What does it mean to recycle waste?
Re-purpose something for a new use.
Spin it around
Manufacturing, agriculture, and mining
Use something again
15
Why do people in developing countries have poor health?
No medical schools.
Poor health insurance coverage
Lack of available healthcare
Religious opposition to doctors and medicine
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What are some examples of biodegradable material?
Everything is biodegradable--it just takes a little time.
Steel and aluminum
Anything from a plant, paper, cotton
Plastics and petroleum
17
Why use GMOs and not selective breeding to improve our food?
GMO's produce more human waste
GMOs are less expensive and take half the time to create.
GMOs can only be grown in the United States.
GMO's have not been approved for use.
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What industries produce the most waste in the US?
Electronics, computer software and
Manufacturing, agriculture, and mining
Sporting events, Entertainment, and Education
Steel mills, railroads and trucking
19
What is the environmental hazard of incinerators?
They can leak toxic leachate into the environment
Generate less waste
Not enough to go around
They release toxic gas into the air.
20
What is an infectious disease?
Is contracted from a bacteria or virus and is transmissible
From ancient organisms living millions of years ago
It results from a toxin and is not transmissible
They are intermittent
21
Why would a city incinerate trash?
Both 1 and 2
They work where there are high concentrations of people.
To poison the air
They take up less land
22
What is putting our arable land at risk?
Erosion, human population, land degradation
No one wants to farm anymore.
A lack of technology and understanding of the human body.
Lack of available healthcare.
23
As the population increases, what happens to the amount of municipal solid waste?
There is more human waste
It is not transmissible
It depends on whether the county is developed or developing.
Homes are destroyed to make room for landfills.
24
What is the toxic liquid from a landfill?
Run-off
Leaches
Leachate
Slime
25
How can the amount of recycled materials be reduced?
Generate less waste
Make products than cannot be recycled
Do not use packaging.
They cannot be reduced any further.
26
What is the benefit of worms, insects, and bacteria in the soil?
Easier to find them for fishing
Make tunnels for water, decompose,allow O2 to circulate
They are man-made and made from petroleum
Generate less waste
27
Why should we not use pesticides?
It’s versatile – you can run a car or generate electricity
It is contracted from a bacteria or virus
Harms the environment, linked to cancer, harms wildlife.
More human waste
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What are GMOs being engineered to do?
Make tunnels for water
Resist drought, pests, and contain nutrients
They release toxic gas into the air
Demand public to recycled goods
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A time when using GMOs & modern farming techniques saved the developing world from starvation?
The Montreal Protocol
The Green Revolution
The Kyoto Protocol
The Treaty of Versailles
30
What are the layers of a landfill?
Dirt, Trash, Dirt, Trash
Gravel, Dirt, Trash, Plastic, Dirt, Trees
Cement, Gravel, Dirt, Trash, Plastic liner, Dirt
Groundwater, plastic liner, gravel, trash, soil cap
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What are examples of solid waste?
Vehicles, refineries, power plants
Burning manure for methane and ethanol
Plastic bags, aluminum cans, paper
More parks, green roofs, cool pavement
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How can bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?
Using antibiotics with livestock.
Taking the medicine when you don’t need it,
Not finishing medicine
All of the above
