AP Environmental Exam

What are the two most common greenhouse gases?

• Water Vapor (H₂O) and Methane (CH₄)

• Carbon Dioxide CO₂ and Methane (CH₄)

• Water Vapor (H₂O) and Carbon Dioxide CO₂

• Water Vapor (H₂O) and Nitrous oxide (N₂O)

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The car is creating ____________________.

• air pollution

• land pollution

• water pollution

• an oil spill

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In the food web diagram, what do the arrows represent?

• Life Cycle

• Metamorphosis

• How food is produced by organisms

• The flow of energy through an ecosystem

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Soil is made of ---

• weathered rocks and minerals.

• dead plants and animals.

• air and water.

• all of the above

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What is the evidence that solar radiation is less important to global warming than the increase in greenhouse gases?

• temperatures have increased more in the summer than in winter

• temperatures have increased more in the winter than in summer

• temperature increases have been uneven across the globe

• there is a historic correlation of CO₂ and temperature

• There is a lack of temperature change in some areas

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Particulate matter can increase global warming by

• reacting with chlorofluorocarbons

• reducing surface absorption of ultraviolet radiation

• producing additional nitrous oxides

• reflecting radiation

• lowering surface albedo

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Biomes are mainly determined by _____ and ____.

• temperature

• weather

• precipitation

• soil

• rocks

What do you notice about this climate graph?

• temperature is warm year round

• temperature is cold year round

• dry summers

• most rain in the winter

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What are some characteristics of rainforests?

• lots of trees

• high year round temperature

• high amount of rainfall

• grasslands

• low year round temperature

What are some characteristics of tundra?

• permafrost

• very cold, low average temperatures

• lots of trees

• small amount of plants

• high amount of rainfall

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