Environmental Geology

What are the gases called that trap heat in the atmosphere and can cause climate change?

• renewable
• nonrenewable
• greenhouse gases
• radioactivity

Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel?

• coal
• oil
• uranium
• natural gas

Agriculture can be harmful to the lithosphere because fertilizers and __________ can pollute the water.

• pesticides
• monoculture
• hydrofracking
• uranium

What type of resource can be easily replaced or replenished by nature?

• renewable 
• nonrenewable
• monoculture
• deforestation

Mining uranium can be harmful due to prolonged exposure to ___________.

• coal
• oil
• biomass
• radioactivty

What is the growing of one single crop all the time called?

• agriculture
• monoculture
• hydrofracking
• geothermal

Which type of renewable energy generally coincides with plate boundaries?

• solar energy
• wind energy
• hydropower
• geothermal energy

What is the process where rock near the bottom of a well is broken up in order to increase the flow of natural gas from the well called?

• hydrofracking
• agriculture
• geothermal energy
• urbanization

Resources that cannot be easily replaced or renewed by nature is called?

• renewable
• nonrenewable
• deforestation
• surface mining

Deforestation is bad for the environment because it adds large amounts of ________ _________ to the atmosphere

• water vapor
• natural gas
• strip mining
• carbon dioxide