U6-WG-PT1-RESOURCES GEOGRAPHY-8C-10D-12B-15A-20B

What relationship is best shown by the information provided on this graph? (WG.8C)

• The United States has adequate petroleum reserves to meet future needs.

• Nations lacking major petroleum reserves cannot industrialize.

• Overproduction of petroleum products has caused inflation in the Middle East.

• Most of the world’s largest petroleum reserves are located in the Middle East.

Which best describes the main point of the cartoon? (WG.8C)

• Future generations may discover there is human life on other planets.

• People in the future will have to carry oxygen and wear bubble hats

• Our actions now may destroy the environment for future generations.

• More people will suffer from allergies in the future.

El Nino is – (WG.8C)

• A natural change in climate that reverse wind and ocean currents

• The first continent that evidence proved its existence in the 1960s

• A biome in South America that is the largest rain forest in the world

• A ring of active and dormant volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean

How does the Environmental Protection Agency use AQI data to support the enforcement of the Clean Air Act? (WG.8C)

• By monitoring the production of fuel-efficient cars

• By limiting the use of certain chemicals by industrial manufacturers

• By reducing the number of permits for new construction projects

• By decreasing the use of mass-transportation systems

Iron ore, coal, and petroleum are all examples of (WG.8C)

• Renewable resources

• Capital resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• Human resources

___________________ involves conserving the world’s resources for future use, for example in reducing fuel consumption, designing energy-efficient buildings, and recycling used materials. (WG.8C)

• Ecology

• Environmental determinism

• Sustainability

• Possibilism

1.  During the Soviet era, disregard for the environmental effects of industrialization (WG.8C)

 

• Helped the Soviet Union become a prosperous country

• Damaged the water, air, soil, and forests

• Led to perestroika and glasnost

• Provoked frequent ethnic strife

For the United States, one benefit of encouraging the development of renewable sources of energy is — TEKS 8C, TEKS 22C

 

• heavy reliance on resources that are replaced by artificial processes

• increased mining of domestic stores of fossil fuels

• a reduction in the cost of energy

• less reliance on foreign sources of oil

Which of the following best illustrates sustainable development? (WG.8C)

 

• Country A has cut down some of its forests to create more farmland

• Country B requires lumber companies to plant more trees than they cut down.

• Country C refines its own crude oil so that it does not need to import foreign oil..

• Country D requires all new buildings to be able to withstand earthquakes.

___________________ involves conserving the world’s resources for future use, for example in reducing fuel consumption, designing energy-efficient buildings, and recycling used materials. (WG.8C)

 

• Possibilism

• Sustainability

• Ecology

• Environmental determinism