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100
What do we use petroleum for?
Make gas, motor oil, diesel fuel, kerosene
100
What is one city that exceptionally bad Photochemical smog?
New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Mexico City, Beijing
100
Where is one place where you might find one of the largest coal mines?
Russia, US, China, Australia
100
What are the two types of coal mines?
Open pit and shaft mines
100
How much has agriculture increased in the last 40 years?
doubled.
200
What was the largest Oil Tanker spill?
Exxon Valdez
200
What problems does photochemical smog cause?
Irritate respiratory system, irritate skin and eyes, harmful to crops and trees, can destroy paint, plastics, and rubber
200
What kind of Coal mine is "safer"?
Open pit
200
What type of coal mine does less environmental damage?
Shaft coal mines
200
What pesticide almost cause the extinction of bald eagles?
DDT
300
What was the largest oil spill in history?
Deepwater Horizon
300
What disease do shaft Coal Miners often get?
Black lung
300
What are two problems caused with Open pit coal mines?
Land on top of the coal mine is destroyed. When rain gets into the coal mine it creates sulfuric acid runoff into waterways
300
Why do we burn coal?
partly for heat, mostly to generate electricity
300
What is the main reason for Deforestation?
Make more farm land
400
What is one impact of the drilling oil wells?
Land around the well is destroyed, roads to and from oil wells destroy a great amount of natural habitats, oil pumps are eye sores.
400
What greenhouse gas does the burning of all fossil fuels create?
Carbon Dioxide, CO2
400
What is acid rain and what causes it?
Chemical rain that destroys plant life, caused by burning of coal
400
When did CO2 levels really start to become noticeably increased?
Start of Industrial Revolution
400
What is the single leading cause in the increase of soil erosion? Why?
Agriculture (farming), when you clear brush and trees you uproot them. Those roots kept the soil form eroding.
500
What is the problem with oil pipelines?
"If you build it, it will leak."
No device built by humans can hold oil (or any other fluid) for an infinite amount of time. Eventually the container will be weathered and leak
500
How do greenhouse gasses heat up Earth?
They trap the heat from the sun for larger amounts of time
500
What does the burning of coal release into the atmosphere and why is it a problem in Minnesota?
Mercury and other heavy metals. Those heavy metals get into our big game fish such as trout and bass.
500
Come up the board and draw a graph of how carbon dioxide levels compare to the average temperature on Earth.
500
What was the leading cause of the drastic decrease in honey bees in the late 1990s and early 2000's?
Insecticides