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What makes a resource nonrenewable?
A. It cannot be replenished in a reasonable amount of time.
B. It is always available in the same amount.
C. It is exploited by human beings.
D. Some nations have more of it than others.
What makes a resource nonrenewable?
A. It cannot be replenished in a reasonable amount of time.
100
Which action is not a cause of soil depletion?
A. deforestation
B. erosion
C. multiple cropping
D. overtilling
C. multiple cropping
100
What is natural gas used for in the United States?
A. vehicle fuel
B. pipe line fuel
C. electrical power production
D. commercial use
C. electrical power production
100
How did the Everglades wetlands become drier?
A. Dam and canal building diverted the historical flow of water away from the Everglades.
B. Dam and canal building forced water into underground aquifers to expose wetlands.
C. Climate change caused water in the Everglades to evaporate.
D.More water was used to irrigate out-of-state farms than could be replenished by rainfall.
A. Dam and canal building diverted the historical flow of water away from the Everglades.
100
Which practice is least likely to lead to food insecurity?
A. eating diets rich in meat
B. making biofuels
C. eating diets rich in cereal grains
D. banning chemical fertilizers
C. eating diets rich in cereal grains
200
What role did the Dust Bowl play in the history of soil conservation?
A. It showed that the American central plains did not have good quality soil.
B. It stirred government to enact the first soil conservation laws.
C. It disproved the idea that irrigation was unnecessary.
D. It led farmers to make voluntary efforts to conserve soil.
B. It stirred government to enact the first soil conservation laws.
200
In the diagram shown, which process is ocean evaporation?
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200
Which of the following was a function of the wetlands in Florida?
A. controlling insects
B. resupplying the groundwater
C. minimizing damage from hurricanes
D. providing high-quality farmland
B. resupplying the groundwater
200
What process of desalination uses high pressure and selectively permeable membranes to remove salt from seawater?
A. electrodialysis
B. reverse osmosis
C. distillation
D. sedimentation
B. reverse osmosis
200
Crude oil is mostly made of which substance?
A. carbon dioxide
B. hydrocarbons
C. carbohydrates
D. greenhouse gas
B. hydrocarbons
300
What caused an increase in phosphorus pollution in Florida waters?
A. Phosphorus seeped from exposed wetland soils.
B. Phosphorus was introduced during canal building.
C. Diminished wetlands could not filter as much phosphorus pollution.
D. Phosphorus seeped from aquifer rocks.
C. Diminished wetlands could not filter as much phosphorus pollution.
300
What was the most important result of the Meireki fire of 1567 in Edo?
A. It cleared large tracts of the city for agriculture.
B. It caused the ruling class to realize the dangers of deforestation.
C. It decreased competition between the daimyos for resources.
D. It decreased the population of the city, thereby reducing timber demand.
B. It caused the ruling class to realize the dangers of deforestation.
300
How can supplies of metals such as copper and aluminum remain healthy even though there is a dwindling amount in the earth's crust?
A. They can be mined.
B. They can be recycled.
C. More can be manufactured.
D. They can be used for a wider range of products.
B. They can be recycled.
300
What factor contributed to the success of the Tokugawa shogunate's afforestation efforts?
A. economic prosperity
B. strong central government
C. foreign influences
D. relative peace
B. strong central government
300
Which of the following factors could prolong the availability of fossil fuels?
A. making new fossil fuels
B. increasing demand for fossil fuels
C. increasing alternative energy sources
D. reducing alternative energy sources
C. increasing alternative energy sources
400
Educating the public is an important aspect of which fire management practice?
A. controlled burning
B. suppressing a fire at early stages
C. suppressing a fire altogether
D. preventing fires
D. preventing fires
400
What effect would decreasing water temperatures have on the cod population in the Georges Bank?
A. More cod would be driven away from the Georges Bank due to the cold temperatures.
B. More cod would be attracted to the Georges Bank due to the cold temperatures.
C. Cod would not be affected by water temperatures.
A. More cod would be driven away from the Georges Bank due to the cold temperatures.
400
How might poverty affect soil loss?
A. Poor people no longer have the desire to farm.
B. When soils are poor in nutrients, crop yields are low.
C. Poverty can lead farmers to continue practices that deplete the soil but yield quick crops.
D. When large-scale deforestation occurs, erosion increases, thus depleting the soil.
C. Poverty can lead farmers to continue practices that deplete the soil but yield quick crops.
400
Which tree harvesting method promotes the growth of younger trees by selectively cutting mature trees over a period of 10 years?
A. clear-cutting
B. selective cutting of single trees
C. selective cutting of groups of trees
D. shelterwood cutting
D. shelterwood cutting
400
Which product is made from forest timber?
A. gum rubber
B. turpentine
C. paper
D. syrup
C. paper
500
What exacerbated the Great Leap Forward famine in China in the late 1950s?
A. quota systems
B. civil war
C. an increased proportion of wealthy citizens
D. a shift from individual to collective farms
D. a shift from individual to collective farms
500
Which type of coal was exposed to the highest temperature and pressures for the longest time?
A. lignite
B. anthracite
C. peat
D. bituminous
B. anthracite
500
What is a soil horizon?
A. bare soil from which all vegetation has been removed
B. a pictorial view of soil showing its ecosystem
C. a layer of soil with characteristic properties
D. soil that is still mostly rock material
C. a layer of soil with characteristic properties
500
Which factor is most likely the greatest contributing factor to the declining Atlantic cod populations?
A. legal regulations
B. water temperature
C. increasing reproductive capacity
D. overfishing
D. overfishing
500
Which continent has the highest proportion of food secure people?
A. North America
B. Africa
C. South America
D. Asia
A. North America