PREP FOR OCEANOGRAPHY QUIZ - HUMAN IMPACTS I & II, OZONE & MARINE DEBRIS

Choose the best answer choice that describes a law signed in 2006 to address the impacts on the marine environment and navigation safety due to floating human waste.

• The Marine Preservation Act

• The Marine Debris Act

• The Paris Accords

• The Montreal Protocol

Choose the best answer choice that does NOT describe the source of marine debris.

• land-based sources

• waterway / ocean-based sources

• people from all over the world

• people living in coastal regions

Choose the answer choice that best describes any manmade object that enters the coastal or marine environment

• marine debris

• sewage

• oil from sporting events

• packaging materials

Choose the answer choices that is NOT one of the six principal steps in stratospheric ozone depletion.

• Emissions

• Chemical Reaction

• Combustion

• Transport

What answer choice does NOT reflect how the ozone layer is measured?

• balloons

• aircrafts

• space shuttles

• ground-based locations

What answer choice best describes bad ozone?

• considered good for humans and other life because it absorbs UV-B radiation

• ozone located in the stratosphere

• formed by reactions involving natural pollutant gases

• ozone near Earth's surface in excess of natural amounts

Choose the answer choice that does NOT describe the chemical reaction(s) that form the ozone molecule.

• the first step is decomposition reaction where diatomic oxygen gas molecule (O₂) being broken apart

• UV radiation is the catalyst for the first decomposition reaction

• A multistep process where the overall reaction is 2O₃ → 3O₂

• the second step consists of an oxygen atom undergoing a binding collision in a synthesis reaction

Select the answer choice that best describes the atmospheric layer where ozone is considered "good".

• Thermosphere

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

Select the answer choice that best describes the atmospheric layer where temperature decreases with height.

• Thermosphere

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

Select the answer choice that best describes the atmospheric layer where temperatures soar to 3,500 °F.

• Thermosphere

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere