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Environmental Quiz 4
Environmental Quiz 4
1. According to a global study of wind power in 2005 what extent of the world's total energy usage could
be satisfied if all viable wind power locations were exploited:
1%; 10%; 75%; Five times?
2. What word, derived loosely from 'two oxygens', refers to a highly toxic group of pollutant chemicals
produced typically as by-products from manufacturing processes?
Dioxins Alfatoxin Megatoxin Intoxication
4. Sulphur/sulfur dioxide and (various) nitrogen oxides are the main contributory factors in what
unhelpful environmental effect:
Acid rain; Landfill run-off; Global warming; Pesticides
5. What structural modification of oxygen is an air pollutant in the lower atmosphere but beneficial in the
upper atmosphere?
Ozone stratosphere exosphere mesosphere
6. Used in various environmental terminology referring to organic life, what prefix derives from the
original Greek meaning 'the course of human life'?
Bio Anthro Exo Meta
7. What is the climate change agreement aimed at stabilizing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere,
named after the Japanese city in which participating nations agreed its framework in 1997?
Kyoto Protocol Paris Convention Belize Assembly
9. In excess of how many gallons of water are lost each day in the USA to leaks, equating to 14% of all
'withdrawals':
Six million, Sixty million, Six hundred million; Six billion
10. The UN Stockholm Convention signed in 2001 seeks to limit the production and use of what,
abbreviated to POPs?
Persistent Organic Pollutant Photo-organic Pollutant Pyro-organic Pollutant
11. What colourless/colorless, odourless/odorless, poisonous polluting gas is chiefly emitted by small
engines typically used in lawn-mowers and chainsaws, etc?
Carbon monoxide Carbon Dioxide Carbon Hydroxide Carbon Filtration
12. What highly toxic element was traditionally used in thermometers, posing a substantial safety and
disposal risk?
Mercury Halogen Lead Arsenic
13. The 1987 Montreal Protocol concerns specifically, and includes in its full title, substances that deplete
what?
The Ozone Layer Ice caps glaciers UV Protection SPF
14. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur/sulfur hexafluoride are widely referred to by
what collective metaphorical term?
Greenhouse Effect Greenhouse Gases Global Warming Climate change
15. From the Greek root words for 'house' and 'study of' what term refers to the scientific study of the
relationship between living things, and their natural environment?
Ecosystem Ecology Environmental Assay Environmental Hazard
16. An 'R number' identifies what sort of substance having potentially significant impact on global
warming when used in heating/cooling applications?
Refrigerant Rectifier Reducer Reservoir
17. The DuPont trade name Freon has become an alternative name for which abbreviated compound
name strongly associated with global warming?
POP GMO Inhalant CFC
18. The 'R-value' used in the building and construction industry is a measure of what quality of a
materials:
Life expectancy; Cost; Thermal resistance; Tensile strength
19. Which three of these waste products are safe and helpful to compost (and by exception which are
not):
Dairy products, Egg shells, Sawdust, Lard, Fish bones, Tea-bags, Pet waste