According to the assigned reading, where does the majority of our water usage come from? correct answers Manufacturing goods
According to Hans Rosling, how many people live below the poverty line and don't have electricity? correct answers 2 billion
Assume the Proven Reserves of the mineral b...
BBE 1002 Final 2024 (100% Correct Answers)
According to the assigned reading, where does the majority of our water usage come from? correct answers Manufacturing goods
According to Hans Rosling, how many people live below the poverty line and don't have electricity? correct answers 2 billion
Assume the Proven Reserves of the mineral bambium are 50 tons and the consumption rate of bambium is 2 tons per year. What is the R/P ratio?
(Note: the "production" or certain minerals is the same as the consumption or extraction from their resources) correct answers 25 years
In his video Hans Rosling indicated that 1/7th of the population (1 billion of the total of 7 billion)
use about ________ of the energy. correct answers 50%
What was the R/P ratio for crude oil in 2010? correct answers 54 years
On average, each person in the US consumes about ________ lbs of mineral, metal, and fossil resources per year.
Hint: You may need to do some math and remember that 1 ton = 2000 lbs. correct answers about 40,000 lbs
Our global population growth rate is currently about 2.1% correct answers False
Figure 2 showed the % consumption of different resources for the developed nations. It showed that in the year 2010 these countries consumed about __________ of the global petroleum consumption. correct answers 50%
When we think about consumption of resources there is both indirect and direct consumption. Match the following: correct answers Gasoline in car: direct
Electricity for home: direct Copper for electric wires along the road: Indirect Concrete used in the road: indirect toothpaste: direct
Assume the world population at the end of 2017 was 7.4 billion people. The population growth rate in 2018 was 1.07%. How many more people were on the planet at the end of 2018? correct answers About 80 million more
Match the following to stages of their respective life cycle. correct answers Making of iron ore: extraction Making steel from iron ore: production
Recycling a car: end of life Driving a car: use
Building a car: production What example was used to explain the concept "it takes more resources to extract more resources"? correct answers Mountaintop coal mining
What was one of the reasons, cited in the text, that there was a spike in oil prices in the 1970's? correct answers US oil production slowed
Which of the following reasons were given for why countries import resources? correct answers It's cheaper because of cheap labor There is no local supply It's cheaper because of relaxed environmental regulations
One of the big environmental issues with mining of metals is the tailing ponds. What are "tailings"? correct answers The leftover crushed rock after the metals are extracted.
Which best describes the concept "it takes resources to extract resources"? correct answers It takes water and fossil fuels to extract minerals or fossil fuels.
From the video, the taconite in the Mesabi formation contains about ___% iron. correct answers 30%
The "Not in my backyard" argument prioritizes ___________ environmental issues over _____________ environmental issues correct answers Local, global
The US was the first to adopt the Basel Convention, the treaty that restricts exports of e-waste. correct answers False
How much in gold and silver each year are discarded from the US just in phones alone? correct answers $60 million
Since this class is about biorenewable resources (stuff from plants) it is good to note that plants take up carbon from the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide. According to Figure 1, how much carbon do plants take up through photosynthesis? correct answers 123 billion metric tons
Figure 3 shows the carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere from the different sources. In 1900 the greatest CO2 emissions were from _________. correct answers Land use change
In the NASA video showing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere (A Year in the Life
of Earth's CO2) what season showed the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere? correct answers Winter
Plants take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere because of photosynthesis. Living plants also put carbon dioxide back in the atmosphere through a process called _____________. correct answers Respiration Figure 1 notes _________ billion metric tons of carbon being emitted from microbial respiration.
correct answers 60
The cool graphic on carbon dioxide concentrations over time (since like 800,000 BCE) showed some interesting things. What was the approximate concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere in 1979? correct answers 330 ppm
The carbon cycle is drawn out in Figure 1. How much carbon is being emitted from human activity? correct answers 9 billion metric tons
If you watch the animation called "Pumphandle", it tracks CO2 concentrations back 800,000 years. In the animation, pre-industrial concentrations were about ___________. correct answers 280 ppm
The topic of biorenewable resources draws on information from all over the world. As such, sometimes the measurements we use are in metric (e.g. kilogram, meter) and other times standard units (e.g. lbs, feet). Anything about the carbon cycle is done in the metric system. "Tons" in the carbon cycle refers to metric tons. How much is a metric ton? correct answers 1000
kilograms
In the NASA video showing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere (A Year in the Life
of Earth's CO2) the red colors in the northern hemisphere start to fade (concentrations are reduced) because of ____________. correct answers plant uptake of carbon dioxide
If you were (somehow), in a car going 60 miles per hour, driving straight up towards the sky, how long would it take for you to reach the edge of the stratosphere?
Use this conversion:
(earth surface to stratosphere) x (1 hour/60 miles) x (60 minutes/1hour) = correct answers about 30 minutes
Only since the industrial age has there been greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. correct answers false
Energy is measured in Watts/m2. Yep, the same 'watts' used when you are shopping for a light bulb. On average, how much solar energy reaches a square meter of Earth? correct answers 340 Watts/m2
A group called the International Panel on Climate Change released a report in 2018 that outlined some likely impacts of a 1.5 degree change in global temperature. Which of these is NOT one of their concerns? correct answers Increasing rainfall across the southern hemisphere
Identify the following as weather or climate events. correct answers Record low temps on Jan 31,
2019: Weather Flooding in Indonesia Oct. 2018: Weather Average nighttime low temps are increasing in Minnesota in the winter: Climate The frequency of droughts in Texas is increasing: Climate
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