SOS final exam 2025 with 100% correct
answers
Megacities - correct answers ✔✔Cities or metropolitan areas with more than 10 million inhabitants.
Urban agglomerations.
Global Impacts of Cities - correct answers ✔✔-78% of carbon emissions
-60% of water is residential
-76% of wood is used for individual purpose attributed to cities
Cities in Food Production - correct answers ✔✔There are more people coming into cities, therefore,
producing less food for consumption.
Impacts of Extreme Heat - correct answers ✔✔Extreme heat can cause serious health problems and
raise energy bills on air conditioning.
Results of Urban Flooding - correct answers ✔✔-Contaminated water supplies.
-Loss of life and property.
-Combined sewer overflows.
Energy Landscapes - correct answers ✔✔- social & tech. aspects of energy production
- social issue
- ex: coal mines, wind farms, hydro dams, urban centers, solar fields, ash disposal farms, oil/gas areas,
biomass, power plants, transport roads
Highest Carbon Intensity - correct answers ✔✔the measure of how much carbon economies emit for
every dollar of GDP they produce. High intensity=Russia and China & low intensity=Switzerland and
Cambodia.
, Demand-side management - correct answers ✔✔An approach toward energy efficiency often used by
electric utility companies that meets customer needs by lowering the demand for the energy, rather
than increasing the supply. This can be accomplished by using more energy efficient appliances, and
better insulated materials.
Supply-side management - correct answers ✔✔The opposite of DSM, it tends to satisfy demand by
increasing the supply of energy.
EX: building a new power plant, instead of building more efficient buildings.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) - correct answers ✔✔A set of rating systems for
the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings, homes and neighborhoods.
LEED-certified buildings generally operate with greater energy efficiency and, therefor, less
environmental impact.
Transit Oriented Development - correct answers ✔✔Mixed land/building use, extreme connectivity (e.g.
pedestrian, overpasses, escalators, local feeder vehicles, and higher employment, and higher residential
densities than the area norm, surrounding a rapid transit station. Normally, TOD developments are
planned, and are frequently found where mass transit linnes intersect or where stations serve an existing
vital urban sub-center.
Bus Rapid Transit - correct answers ✔✔Using buses to offer rail-like public transit services. Based on
using normal buses in exclusive, dedicated lanes that allow them to avoid traffic. Relies on passangers
prepaying their fairs at kiosks or stations like rail systems to speed up passenger boarding.
Critical Mass - correct answers ✔✔A number or amount large enough to produce a particular result. An
act of civil disobedience meant to illustrate what a city might be like. EX: without automobiles and if
street space were used for bicycle travel.
Vehicle Miles Traveled - correct answers ✔✔A measure of total travel by all vehicles. If 100 vehicles
travel each 100 miles, the tootal vehicle miles traveled is 10,000.
Human-ecological systems - correct answers ✔✔Humans are dependent on natural systems, such as the
water cycle or other nutrient cycles. On the other hand, humans alter these ccles by there effects on the
natural environment. The combination of dependence and effects are characteristic of human-ecological
systems.
answers
Megacities - correct answers ✔✔Cities or metropolitan areas with more than 10 million inhabitants.
Urban agglomerations.
Global Impacts of Cities - correct answers ✔✔-78% of carbon emissions
-60% of water is residential
-76% of wood is used for individual purpose attributed to cities
Cities in Food Production - correct answers ✔✔There are more people coming into cities, therefore,
producing less food for consumption.
Impacts of Extreme Heat - correct answers ✔✔Extreme heat can cause serious health problems and
raise energy bills on air conditioning.
Results of Urban Flooding - correct answers ✔✔-Contaminated water supplies.
-Loss of life and property.
-Combined sewer overflows.
Energy Landscapes - correct answers ✔✔- social & tech. aspects of energy production
- social issue
- ex: coal mines, wind farms, hydro dams, urban centers, solar fields, ash disposal farms, oil/gas areas,
biomass, power plants, transport roads
Highest Carbon Intensity - correct answers ✔✔the measure of how much carbon economies emit for
every dollar of GDP they produce. High intensity=Russia and China & low intensity=Switzerland and
Cambodia.
, Demand-side management - correct answers ✔✔An approach toward energy efficiency often used by
electric utility companies that meets customer needs by lowering the demand for the energy, rather
than increasing the supply. This can be accomplished by using more energy efficient appliances, and
better insulated materials.
Supply-side management - correct answers ✔✔The opposite of DSM, it tends to satisfy demand by
increasing the supply of energy.
EX: building a new power plant, instead of building more efficient buildings.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) - correct answers ✔✔A set of rating systems for
the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings, homes and neighborhoods.
LEED-certified buildings generally operate with greater energy efficiency and, therefor, less
environmental impact.
Transit Oriented Development - correct answers ✔✔Mixed land/building use, extreme connectivity (e.g.
pedestrian, overpasses, escalators, local feeder vehicles, and higher employment, and higher residential
densities than the area norm, surrounding a rapid transit station. Normally, TOD developments are
planned, and are frequently found where mass transit linnes intersect or where stations serve an existing
vital urban sub-center.
Bus Rapid Transit - correct answers ✔✔Using buses to offer rail-like public transit services. Based on
using normal buses in exclusive, dedicated lanes that allow them to avoid traffic. Relies on passangers
prepaying their fairs at kiosks or stations like rail systems to speed up passenger boarding.
Critical Mass - correct answers ✔✔A number or amount large enough to produce a particular result. An
act of civil disobedience meant to illustrate what a city might be like. EX: without automobiles and if
street space were used for bicycle travel.
Vehicle Miles Traveled - correct answers ✔✔A measure of total travel by all vehicles. If 100 vehicles
travel each 100 miles, the tootal vehicle miles traveled is 10,000.
Human-ecological systems - correct answers ✔✔Humans are dependent on natural systems, such as the
water cycle or other nutrient cycles. On the other hand, humans alter these ccles by there effects on the
natural environment. The combination of dependence and effects are characteristic of human-ecological
systems.
