APES Final Exam Practice

Levels of this pollutant have gone down since they removed this as a gasoline additive

• lead
• mercury
• radon
• iron

This comes from the decay of uranium in underlying bedrock and can cause cancer

• radon
• lead
• copper
• iron

Which is NOT linked to lung cancer?

• cigarette smoke
• radon
• asbestos
• copper sulfate

Sushi containing fish higher in the food chain (tuna, grouper, sea bass, etc.) could cause health risks due to bioaccumulation of

• lead
• radon
• mercury
• asbestos

Which region would you expect to contain the most methane hydrates that could contribute to global climate change?

• Anything near the arctic
• Central America
• Australia and New Zealand
• Near the editerranian

Which region of the world has exported the most petroleum over the last few decades?

• Middle east 
• USA
• China
• United Kingdom

Which areas have NOT experienced loss in tropical rain forests?

• Southwest Africa
• Eastern South America
• South East Asia
• Western Europe

Tornadoes have the highest prevalence  in which area?

• United States
• Argentina
• South Africa 
• Australia

Anthropogenic climate change has resulted in the largest average annual temperature change in 

• arctic regions
• desert regions
• savannas 
• tropical rainforests

Seafloor spreading creates new crust at

• a divergent plate boundary (usually middle of the ocean)
• convergent plate boundary
• fault line
• all of these