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Raven, Berg, Hassenzahl: Environment, 7th Edition
Chapter 10 Urbanization
1. Which of the following problems is commonly shared by cities in both highly developed and developing countries?
a) lack of adequate medical facilities
b) lack of adequate clean water
c) lack of adequate technology
d) lack of adequate schools
e) lack of adequate shelter
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Urbanization Trends; 10.1.2
2. Mexico City:
a) is representative of urbanization in a developing country
b) is a good example of a megacity
c) was one of the 10 largest cities in the world in 2005
d) had a population of 19.4 million in 2005
e) all of these
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Urbanization Trends; 10.1.2
3. What percentage of the U.S. population lives in cities?
a) 25%
b) 50%
c) 79%
d) 85%
e) 100%
Ans: c
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Population and Urbanization; 10.1
4. Urbanization:
a) is growing more quickly in developing countries than in developed countries
b) currently accounts for housing about 75% of the global population
c) results in fewer employment opportunities in developed countries as compared to rural areas
d) refers to the migration of city people to the country to enjoy country living
e) describes a grouping of 10,000 or more individuals
Ans: a
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Urbanization Trends; 10.1.2
5. The young age structure of urban areas can be attributed to:
a) high birth rates in urban areas
b) influx of young people from rural areas
c) high death rates in urban areas
d) the presence of more females than males in urban areas
e) shortened life expectancy of urban dwellers
Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Characteristics of the Urban Population; 10.1.1
6. Unlike people who live in urban areas, people who live in rural areas:
a) are employed in occupations which involve industrial labor
b) are far more heterogeneous with respect to race
c) are far more heterogeneous with respect to religion
d) are generally younger than those in the surrounding cities
e) are employed in occupations which involve harvesting natural resources
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Population and Urbanization; 10.1
7. The process in which people increasingly move from rural areas to densely populated cities is termed:
a) high density accommodation
b) rural redistribution
c) urbanization
d) metropolitan relocation
e) municipality magnetism
Ans: c
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Population and Urbanization; 10.1
8. Sustainable urban development ideally involves:
a) green space
b) recycling
c) urban farmers
d) solar energy
e) all of these
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Making Cities More Sustainable; 10.4
9. What is gentrification?
a) The movement of wealthier people back to older, run-down homes that have been renovated.
b) The remaining of people in the city and older suburbs who find themselves the victims of declining property values and increasing isolation from suburban jobs.
c) The movement of more affluent citizens to the suburbs to avoid the noise and pollution of inner cities.
d) The remaining of people in the inner city because of prejudice encountered when they seek to move out to suburban neighborhoods.
e) The movement of people to the suburbs to pay less in terms of taxes but more in terms of transportation costs.
Ans: a
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Urban Land Use Planning; 10.3
10. A brownfield is an urban area of:
a) vacant house lots that are overgrown with weeds and vegetation
b) parking lot pavement that collects heat during the day and emits heat at night
c) meadows that are earmarked for industrial development
d) sports arenas for baseball, football, and soccer
e) abandoned, vacant factories, warehouses, and residential sites that may be contaminated from past uses
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Environmental Problems Associated with Urban Areas; 10.2.2
11. Currently the percentage of people living in cities, compared with rural settings, in highly developed countries is ______than that in developing countries.
a) less than
b) greater than
c) the same as
d) rapidly increasing while slowing
e) stagnant while slowing
Ans: b
Difficulty: Medium
Response:
Urbanization Trends; 10.1.2
Raven, Berg, Hassenzahl: Environment, 7th Edition
Chapter 11 Fossil Fuels
12. Based on the figure below, which region of the world has the third-largest oil deposits?a) North America
b) Africa
c) Asia and Oceania
d) East Europe and former U.S.S.R.
e) South and Central America
Ans: d
Difficulty: Medium
Response:
Oil and Natural Gas; Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas; 11.4.2
13. Which of these fossil fuels was/were formed from the remains of ancient microscopic algae and aquatic organisms?
a) oil
b) natural gas
c) gas hydrates
d) methane
e) all of these
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
How Fossil Fuels Formed; 11.2.1
14. Combustion of which of these fossil fuels is/are linked to global warming?
a) oil
b) natural gas
c) coal
d) methane
e) all of these
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response
Fossil Fuels, The Carbon Cycle, and Climate; 11.2.2
15. Which fossil fuel reserves will most likely last the longest?
a) oil
b) natural gas
c) coal
d) peat
e) uranium
Ans: c
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Coal Reserves; 11
16. Which fossil fuel is most abundant in North America?
a) oil
b) natural gas
c) uranium
d) coal
e) peat
Ans: d
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Coal Reserves; 11.3.1
17. The type of fossil fuel made from the remains of ancient plants that lived millions of years ago is:
a) peat
b) coal
c) oil
d) natural gas
e) synfuel
Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
How Fossil Fuels Formed; 11.2.1
18. At the current rate of consumption, the world's coal reserves could last for possibly another:
a) 20 years
b) 50 years
c) 100 years
d) 200 years
e) 500 years
Ans: d
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Coal Reserves; 11.3.1
19. The concern about global warming is directly related to increased levels of what chemical in the atmosphere?
a) mercury
b) carbon dioxide
c) sulfur oxide
d) nitrogen oxide
e) chlorofluorocarbon
Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Fossil Fuels, The Carbon Cycle, and Climate; 11.2.2
20. Today the world's main energy source is:
a) coal
b) hydroelectric
c) natural gas
d) nuclear
e) oil
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Oil and Natural Gas; 11.4
21. How has the burning of fossil fuels affected the global carbon cycle?
a) less carbon is stored underground
b) carbon is stored underground for longer periods of time
c) the amount of carbon taken up by plants has decreased
d) the total amount of carbon on earth has increased
e) the carbon cycle has slowed down
Ans: a
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Fossil Fuels, The Carbon Cycle, and Climate; 11.2.2
22. The greatest increase in worldwide energy consumption in the last few years is related to:
a) American fascination with driving SUVs
b) economic development in China and India
c) use of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture
d) increase in population in Africa
e) global warming
Ans: b
Difficulty: Medium
Response:
Consumption, and Policy; Energy Consumption; 11.1.1
23. A major reason that global energy consumption is increasing is that:
a) energy prices keep falling
b) developing countries are using more energy as they improve their standard of living
c) the world's population growth is slowing
d) global energy reserves are increasing
e) farmers in developing countries depend on the energy of animals for plowing and other work
Ans: b
Difficulty: Medium
Response:
Consumption, and Policy; Energy Consumption; 11.1.1
24. One of the most destructive types of surface mining for the land itself:
a) is mountaintop removal using a dragline
b) is associated with the increased risk of black-lung disease in miners
c) is regulated by the guidelines of the 1977 Surface Mining and Reclamation Act
d) is most common in the western United States
e) involves replacement of the overburden that is first removed
Ans: a
Difficulty: Medium
Response:
Environmental Impacts of the Mining Process; 11.3.4
Raven, Berg, Hassenzahl: Environment, 7th Edition
Chapter 12 Nuclear Energy
25. Nuclear energy:
a) is released when the chemical bonds that hold atoms together are changed
b) involves changes within the nuclei of atoms
c) involves converting a large amount of matter from the nucleus into a small amount of energy
d) results in the production of greater mass at the end of the energy process
e) all of these
Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Nuclear Processes; 12.1.1
26. Nuclear fission:
a) is a form of combustion
b) is the blending or "melting together" of two small atoms to form a large atom
c) is the splitting of a large atom into two smaller atoms of different elements
d) is the rearrangement of electrons that occurs during a chemical reaction
e) is the process that powers the sun and other stars
Ans: c
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Nuclear Processes; 12.1.1
27. The half-life of a radioactive element is the period of time required:
a) to convert half of a given mass into radioisotopes
b) to extract one-half of the energy from the Earth's uranium supply
c) for one half of the total amount of a radioactive substance to change into a different material
d) for the sun to us up one-half of its available atomic resources
e) none of these
Ans: c
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Introduction to Nuclear Processes; Atoms and Radioactivity; 12.1.2
28. The process of refining uranium ore and insuring the proper amounts of various types of uranium is called:
a) breeding
b) fabrication
c) enrichment
d) fission
e) integration
Ans: c
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Nuclear Fission; 12.2
29. A reactor vessel in a nuclear power plant is:
a) the protective structure surrounding the reactor core
b) the container used to store spent fuel rods
c) used to control the fission process in the reactor core
d) the site of steam and electricity production
e) the standard location for on-site waste storage
Ans: a
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Nuclear Fission; 12.2
30. When high temperatures begin to melt the metal encasing of the uranium fuel pellets, this is called a:
a) breeder reaction
b) fission reaction
c) fusion reaction
d) meltdown
e) flame out
Ans: d
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Safety Issues in Nuclear Power Plants; 12.4
31. The worst nuclear accident ever to happen at a nuclear power plant occurred at:
a) Bristol, England
b) Chornobyl, Ukraine
c) Fukishima, Japan
d) Savanna River, GA
e) Three Mile Island, PA
Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Chornobyl; 12.4.2
32. All of the following are related to NIMBY response except:
a) not in my back yard
b) it commonly is a response to the proposal for a nuclear power plant
c) politicians and their term of office
d) is the “sister” response to NIMTOO
e) all of these are related
Ans: c
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Public and Expert Attitudes Toward Nuclear Energy; 12.6.1
33. One advantage of conventional nuclear power, when compared to coal, is:
a) no connection to water pollution
b) limited risk from catastrophic accidents
c) emission of few pollutants to the atmosphere
d) no related occupational death
e) unlimited supply
Ans: c
Difficulty: Medium
Response:
Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy; 12.3
Raven, Berg, Hassenzahl: Environment, 7th Edition
Chapter 13 Renewable Energy
34. If Hydroelectric power generation was doubled in the US, that would greatly contribute to energy independence of the US : See Big Screen
a) True
b) Somewhat
c) False
35. Adding 10 times the current wind power electric generation would dramatically reduce the US dependence on foreign sources of petroleum. See Big Screen
a) True
b) Somewhat
c) False
36. Oil / Petroleum is represents approximately ______% of electric generation in the US.
See Big Screen
a) 39%
b) 23%
c) 8%
d) 1%
e) <1%l
37. The US is reliant on the following priority order of fuel sources for its electric power supply.
a) Oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, renewables
b) Oil, ethanol, natural gas, coal, nuclear, renewables
c) Coal, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Oil, renewables
d) Coal, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Renewables, Oil,
e) Methanol, ethanol, propane, butane and isobutenel
38. Biomass can be converted into which of the following liquid fuels:
a) methanol
b) ethanol
c) fossil fuels
d) diesel
e) both methanol and ethanol
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Indirect Solar Energy; Biomass Energy; 13.2.1
39. Which of the following is not a form of energy technology that originates as solar energy?
a) nuclear energy
b) hydropower
c) wind power
d) photovoltaic solar cells
e) fossil fuels
Ans: a
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Chapter Opener; 13.0
40. Which of the following is not a renewable source of energy?
a) wind
b) fossil fuels
c) direct solar
d) biomass
e) hydropower
Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Chapter Opener; 13.0
41. Energy produced from any source other than fossil fuel is called:
a) conventional energy
b) alternative energy
c) renewable energy
d) nuclear energy
e) sustainable energy
Ans: b
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Chapter Opener; 13.0
42. The amount of solar radiation hitting the Earth depends on:
a) the amount of cloud cover
b) the distance from the equator
c) the time of day
d) the season of the year
e) all of these
Ans: e
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Direct Solar Energy; Opener; 13.1
43. In the United States, solar radiation is greatest in:
a) the southwest
b) the northeast
c) the northwest
d) the mid-west
e) Florida
Ans: a
Difficulty: Easy
Response:
Direct Solar Energy; Opener; 13.1
44. Which of the following is fuel that can be used in a fuel cell?
a) hydrogen
b) coal
c) uranium