Which statement about human population growth is LEAST likely to be correct?

Technological advances in farming and medicine will allow human populations to continue to grow without natural limits.

Modern medicine has allowed human populations to extend well past the earth's carrying capacity, as more people survive for longer.

Advances in agriculture have allowed the world's food supply to expand dramatically in the last 100 years.

Worldwide, humans are reproducing more quickly than mortality is removing people from the population.

is produced by incomplete combustion.

leads to the formation of photochemical smog.

is most problematic in rural areas

does not directly cause deaths.

Which of the following is the most likely route for mercury to enter the food web?

Coal-burning emissions → deposition→ ocean → plankton → fishes

Municipal waste → landfill → groundwater→ plants and vegetation

Organic fertilizers →soil →groundwater→ lake → trout

Medical waste incinerators → stratosphere→ grass → cows

Mining waste → acid deposition → surface runoff → plants and vegetation

Identify the correctly paired rock types and examples:

Formed under extreme temperature and pressure - Sedimentary

Likely to harbor fossils - Metamorphic rock

Formed when sediments undergo lithification - metamorphic

The gravitational pull of the moon

Currents carrying water from one place to another

The Montreal Protocol of 1987 banned _______ to help solve _____

Nitrogenous runoff; oceanic dead zones

Carbon emissions; climate change

Aerosol emissions; global cooling

Which of the following is a non-point source of water pollution?

Runoff of pesticides from regional farms into the Illinois River.

Effluent from a sewage treatment plant

BP refiner in Indiana discharging ammonia in a river.

Hot water discharges from a nuclear power plant.

Which of the following is a probable impact of increased use of inorganic (lab-made) fertilizers in a watershed?

Increase in storm severity in southeastern U.S.

Saltwater intrusion on the East Coast.

What is the health risks could be connected to eating some fish from lakes or the ocean?

If they are high on the food chain they may contain high levels of mercury or PCB's.

They may be invasive species that impact native fish species populations.

The Omega-3 fatty acids found in some fish can have a negative impact on cardiovascular health.

They may have been exposed to inorganic nutrients from fertilizers.

Which law sets standards limiting pollutants for community's water supplies?

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

This law regulates the discharges of pollutants into all waters that have a significant connection with navigable waterways. Also, must have a permit to dump these pollutants. Also, requires certain steps in sewage treatment.

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Which method is used to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions?

Installation of catalytic converters

Increased temperature of combustion

The addition of oxygen to combustion processes

The use of fluidized bed combustion

The use of calcium carbonate to absorb emissions

What does biodiversity mean?

The different amount of species in an area

What may happen when a lake ecosystem becomes polluted with fertilizers or pesticides?

. increased rate of decomposition by detritivores

increase in carrying capacity of the ecosystem

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What are the two most common greenhouse gases?

Water Vapor (H₂O) and Methane (CH₄)

Carbon Dioxide CO₂and Methane (CH₄)

Water Vapor (H₂O) and Carbon Dioxide CO₂

Water Vapor (H₂O) and Nitrous oxide (N₂O)

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Which in the atmosphere protects us from harmful UV radiation?

Ozone

Water Vapor

Methane

Sulfur Dioxide

Carbon Dioxide

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What type of waves get trapped inside the greenhouse?

Sunlight

Ultraviolet

Microwaves

Infrared

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What results from livestock and other agricultural practices and by the decay of organic waste in municipal solid waste landfills?

Carbon Dioxide

Methane

Water Vapor

Fluorinated Gases

Nitrous Oxide

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These gases are typically emitted in smaller quantities, but because they are potent greenhouse gases, they are sometimes referred to as High Global Warming Potential gases ("High GWP gases").

Fluorinated Gases

Methane

Carbon Dioxide

Nitrous Oxide

Water Vapor

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Chlorofluorocarbons and HCFCs are being phased out under an international agreement, called the __________.

Paris Agreement

Kyoto Protocol

Montreal Protocol

Endangered Species Act

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The step in the nitrogen cycle where plants take up nitrate and use it to make biological molecules is:

nitrification

ammonification

nitrogen fixation

assimilation

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AP Environmental Science Review

What are the two most common greenhouse gases?

Which in the atmosphere protects us from harmful UV radiation?

What type of waves get trapped inside the greenhouse?

What results from livestock and other agricultural practices and by the decay of organic waste in municipal solid waste landfills?

These gases are typically emitted in smaller quantities, but because they are potent greenhouse gases, they are sometimes referred to as High Global Warming Potential gases ("High GWP gases").

Chlorofluorocarbons and HCFCs are being phased out under an international agreement, called the __________.

The step in the nitrogen cycle where plants take up nitrate and use it to make biological molecules is:

The step in the nitrogen cycle where bacteria convert ammonia (NH₃) to nitrate (NO₃^-) is:

The process where some bacteria remove nitrate from the soil by converting it to nitrogen gas is:

What is the first step in the nitrogen cycle, in which gaseous nitrogen is converted into ammonia?

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AP Environmental Science Review

What are the two most common greenhouse gases?

Which in the atmosphere protects us from harmful UV radiation?

What type of waves get trapped inside the greenhouse?

What results from livestock and other agricultural practices and by the decay of organic waste in municipal solid waste landfills?

These gases are typically emitted in smaller quantities, but because they are potent greenhouse gases, they are sometimes referred to as High Global Warming Potential gases ("High GWP gases").

Chlorofluorocarbons and HCFCs are being phased out under an international agreement, called the __________.

The step in the nitrogen cycle where plants take up nitrate and use it to make biological molecules is:

The step in the nitrogen cycle where bacteria convert ammonia (NH3) to nitrate (NO3-) is:

The process where some bacteria remove nitrate from the soil by converting it to nitrogen gas is:

What is the first step in the nitrogen cycle, in which gaseous nitrogen is converted into ammonia?

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The step in the nitrogen cycle where bacteria convert ammonia (NH₃) to nitrate (NO₃^-) is: