Environmental Semester Exam Review

You have been hired to build a museum. Which of the following would not be a sustainable design

• Thick walls to allow them to absorb heat from the sun during the day and release it into the building at night

• Using high efficiency appliances or plumbing such as low flo toilets and showers

• Using renewable energy systems such as Solar or wind turbines

• Planting nonnative plants

• Using recycled building materials

You want to restore a forest habitat. What is the most important thing to do

• Plant the same type of native trees

• remove all plants currently in the area

• release native animals into the forest

• remove any dead or organic material from the soil

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Will burning trash conserve resources

• True

• False

Counts were taken of fish located downstream from a mining operation.

Based on this information where are the pollutants from the mining most likely entering the stream?

• 6 miles from the stream source

• 13 miles from the stream source

• 16 miles from the stream source

• 23 miles from the source

Why should mining operations be required to restore the landscape and vegetation of mined lands

• It costs less

• It lessens the environmental impact

• It will make the mined materials more plentiful

Why should we recycle garbage instead of burying it in landfills or incinerating it?

• Lowers cost

• Generates energy

• Saves raw materials

• reduces volume by 90%

According to the graph How much of the global marine stocks have been fished to, or past their limits?

• 7 %

• 20%

• 52%

• 77%

The burning of fossil fuels contributes to the carbon cycle in what way?

• Increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere

• Increases the amount of O2 in the atmosphere

• Decreases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere

• Decreases the amount of O2 in the atmosphere

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Inorganic phosphate is an important nutrient in the ecosystem. Organisms need this nutrient to produce nucleic acids and cell membranes.

According to the diagram, which of the following pairs of biogeochemical cycles have the greatest interaction with the phosphorus cycle to bring inorganic phosphate to plants?

• Nitrogen Cycle and Hydrologic Cycle

• Carbon Cycle and Nitrogen Cycle

• Rock Cycle and Hydrologic Cycle

• Carbon Cycle and Sulfur Cycle

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Fluctuations in the hydrologic cycle could negatively affect a desert biome in all these ways except ―

• change in seasonal cycles causes animal populations to migrate or hibernate

• animals breed at a time when there are limited resources available

• fluctuation causes species loss

• formation of a new ecosystem

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