Environmental Science

Which statement about hybrid vehicles is accurate?

• Hybrid cars have negligible environmental impact.

• A hybrid car has the potential to use only half as much gasoline as an internal combustion car.

• Mining the metals used in a hybrid is less destructive to the environment than fossil fuel extraction.

• The lanthanum required for use in a hybrid car is a renewable resource.

• The metals needed for producing hybrid cars will be depleted in the next 10 years.

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Which does NOT occur as a result of mining the metals needed to build hybrid cars?

• Acids are pumped into deep boreholes to dissolve surrounding rock.

• Ground disturbance causes air and water to react with other minerals in the rock.

• The surrounding natural habitat is fragmented.

• Acid mine drainage flows over land.

• No non-renewable resources are used.

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The layer of soil on the surface of Earth is at the top of the

• crust.

• mantle.

• core.

• asthenosphere.

• stratosphere.

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Which best describes the theory of plate tectonics?

• Earth’s asthenosphere is divided into plates, which move.

• Earth’s mantle is divided into plates, which move.

• Earth’s lithosphere is divided into plates, which move.

• Earth’s core is divided into plates, which move.

• The crust of the Earth is solid.

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The ecological consequences of plate movement include: speciation. extinction. alterations in behavior of predators and prey.

• I only.

• I and II.

• I and III

• II and III.

• I, II, and III.

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Volcanoes may be found at or near plate boundaries where there is

• subduction.

• divergence.

• convergence.

• seafloor spreading.

• all of the above.

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Within the rock cycle, the three distinct categories of rocks are igneous which is derived from _____________; metamorphic which is derived from ______________; and sedimentary which is derived from __________.

• pressure; heat; the layering of sediments

• volcanoes; oceans; mountain ranges

• magma and lava; heat and pressure; the layering of sediments

• heat and pressure; magma; the formation of lakebeds

• intrusion; faulting; folding

Use Figure 8-1. A subduction zone is shown at

• point A.

• point B.

• point C.

• point D.

• point E.

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Use Figure 8-1. New ocean floor is created at

• point A.

• point B.

• point C.

• point D.

• point E.

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Use Figure 8-1. The asthenosphere is shown at

• point B.

• point C.

• point E.

• point G.

• point I.

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