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APES Final Exam questions and Answers Which of the following are a point source of water pollution? offshore oil wells If the world's population grew by 2% in 1998 and continued at that rate, how long would it take Earth's population to double? 35 years All of the following are gen...

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APES Final Exam questions and
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Which of the following are a point source of water pollution? - answer offshore oil
wells

If the world's population grew by 2% in 1998 and continued at that rate, how long would
it take Earth's population to double? - answer 35 years

All of the following are general types of nutrient cycles except - answer the
carbohydrate cycle

Which of the following is false? Tectonic plates... - answer are composed of crust
and core

The fissionable fraction of the fuel in a nuclear reactor is - answer uranium-235

Net energy is - answer the useful energy from an energy resource minus the amount
of energy used and wasted in producing it

The most important factor in determining which biome is found in a particular area is -
answer climate

During an El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) - answer upwellings of cold, nutrient-
rich water are suppressed

The ocean zone that covers the continental shelf is the - answer coastal zone

The dissolving of material from the upper layers of the soil and its movement to lower
horizons is called - answer leaching

Water covers about __% of the Earth's surface - answer 71

Species that normally live and thrive in a particular ecosystem are known as - answer
native species

The greatest use of oil in the United States is for - answer transportation

Thriving coral reefs require - answer dissolved-oxygen in nutrients

Which of the choices below list stages of coal formation in order from highest to lowest
heat content - answer anthracite-bituminous-lignite-peat

, An environmentally sustainable society - answer all of the above

Hydroelectric plants - answer help control flooding and supply a regulated flow of
irrigation water to areas below the dam

Planting crops in alternating rows of close-growing plants - answer strip-cropping

Nitrogen fixation is accomplished by - answer bacteria

Mature temperature deciduous forests ___ than tropical rain forests - answer have
more plant life at ground level

Trees with needlelike leaves that are kept year round are especially abundant in which
biome? - answer coniferous forest

Photosynthesis - answer yields glucose and oxygen as products

Countries that have achieved ZPG have an age structure that - answer shows little
variation in population by age

At the checkout counter an environmentalist is most likely to - answer "I brought my
own bag."

All nonrewable resources can theoretically be - answer exhausted and depleted

Permafrost is characteristic of the - answer arctic tundra

Forests remove ___ from and add ___ to the atmosphere - answer carbon dioxide
and oxygen

Indoor air pollution could be sharply reduced by - answer modifying building codes to
prevent radon infiltration, requiring exhaust hoods or vent pipes for stoves, refrigerators,
or other appliances burning natural gas or other fossil fuels, setting emission standards
for building materials (ALL OF THE ABOVE)

All physical forms of water (solid, liquid, and gas) make up the - answer hydrosphere

Oxygen sag curves - answer occur when oxygen-demanded wastes are added to the
water

Renewable energy resources include all of the following except - answer natural gas

Sources of groundwater contamination include - answer deep wells used to dispose
of liquid hazardous wastes, abandoned hazardous waste dumps, and industrial and
livestock waste storage lagoons (ALL OF THE ABOVE)

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