Chapter 14 + 15

What is NOT an issue with suburban sprawl?

• More congestion/traffic, leading to more pollution

• Quicker spread of disease

• Fewer walkable areas

• Increase in obesity and heart disease

Which does not increase human impact on the environment? I=PAT

• More Affluence

• Greater Population size

• More poverty

• Higher Technology level

The Tragedy of the Commons describes how

• Shared resources will often be misused/overused

• Government management of resources will always fail

• Communal management of resources will always fail

• People are incapable of working together to manage resources

Which is not a risk of mining?

• Use of cyanide and mercury during extraction

• Destruction of land

• Release of toxic air pollutants

• Ocean acidification

A communal resource management system includes all the following factors except

• Clear boundaries

• Active monitoring of resource use

• People living on the land a long time

• Privatization and self interest

The first law of thermodynamics states

• Energy can be neither created nor destroyed

• Mass can neither be created or destroyed

• The universe tends towards entropy (chaos)

• You do not talk about thermodynamics.

The second law of thermodynamics states

• Energy can be neither created nor destroyed

• Mass can neither be created or destroyed

• The universe tends towards entropy (chaos)

• You DO NOT talk about thermodynamics.

Which statement about powerplant efficiency is true?

• Energy conversion into electricity is perfectly efficient

• Energy conversion always completely inefficient

• Natural gas has a higher efficiency than coal or oil

• Coal has the highest efficiency of all fossil fuels

Coal is often contaminated with what element?

• Carbon

• Silicon

• Sulfur

• Uranium

In a coal-burning plant, scrubbers catch all of the following except...

• Sulfur Dioxide

• Particulates

• NOx

• Methane