AP Environmental Science Unit 9

committing industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in accordance with agreed individual targets

• Kyoto Protocol

• CITES

• Montreal Protocol

• Endangered Species Act

• NEPA

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Organisms that are successful in a new environment due to access to abundant resources and no predators

• threatened

• keystone

• endangered

• least concern

• invasive

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

This had the goal of decrease production of CFCs by the year 2000

• Montreal Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• Paris Agreement

• NEPA

• CITES

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

The international agreement between governments to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species

• CITES

• Endangered Species Act

• Montreal Protocol

• Kyoto Protocol

• Sioux Falls Animal Act

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Where there is a lot of mixing of air, weather, and "bad" ozone

• Troposphere

• Hydrosphere

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Stratosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which is NOT true about ocean warming?

• The distribution of heat in the oceans is not uniform

• Coral bleaching rates are decreasing

• Warm water holds less dissolved oxygen than colder water

• Sea levels are rising due to thermal expansion

• Many species are relocating further from the equator

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Evidence for climate change on Earth includes

• Global temperature decline

• Warming oceans

• Increasing glaciers

• Lowering sea levels

• None of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Which of the following anthropogenic activities is most closely associated with depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer?

• Flooded cropland

• Garbage incineration

• Mining of talc

• Disposal of refrigerators and air conditioners

• None of these

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-6

A source of heat to warm up oceans is

• sunlight

• water vapor

• carbon dioxide

• all of these

• none of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Why do we need greenhouse gasses?

• We don't! All greenhouse gasses are bad

• They help regulate Earth's climate

• They decrease Earth's temperature

• None of the above