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APES REVIEW TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What waste makes up the bulk of a landfill? - ANSWERS-Paper products What is the Love Canal? - ANSWERS-A residential community built on an hazardous waste dump created by the Hooker Company near Niagara Falls. Polluted drinking water, major problems. What are major laws impacting water? - ANSWERS-Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Water quality act What are major laws concerning wildlife protection? - ANSWERS-Endangered Species Act, CIT...

APES Unit 6 Exam Review Questions and Answers Which country contains the largest amount of coal? - ANSWERS-United States What country contains the largest amount of crude oil? - ANSWERS-Venezuela What country contains the largest amount of natural gas? - ANSWERS-Russia What country contains the largest amount of uranium 235? - ANSWERS-Australia What country contains the largest amount of geothermal energy? - ANSWERS-United States Describe how fossil fuels are ignited and conv...

APES Unit 5 Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers Who is the largest single landowner in the US? - ANSWERS-federal government What does it mean by multiple-use lands? Give one example of a type of land that is considered "multiple use" - ANSWERS-used for recreation, grazing, timber, and mineral extraction Ex: national forests dry, open grasslands; primarily used for cattle grazing - ANSWERS-rangeland What are rangelands primarily used for in the US? - ANSWERS-cattle grazin...

APES Unit 9 Review Exam Questions and Answers habitat fragmentation - ANSWERS-occurs when large habitats are broken into smaller, isolated areas causes of habitat fragmentation - ANSWERS-include the construction of roads and pipelines, clearing for agriculture or development, and logging ways global climate change can cause habitat loss - ANSWERS-changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea level rise species domestication - ANSWERS-some organisms have been somewhat or completely...

APES Final Review Vocabulary Exam Questions and Answers Rachel Carson - ANSWERS-published Silent Spring in 1962; documented the environmental damage done by DDT and other pesticides. Heightened public awareness at start of the modern environmental movement John Muir - ANSWERS-founded Sierra Club in 1892; fought unsuccessfully to prevent the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park Gifford Pinchot - ANSWERS-first chief of the US Forest Service; advocated managing re...

APES practice test multiple choice with complete solutions 1. Choose the process below that best fits the following: the rapid rate of this process in tropical forests results in low-nutrient soils. - ANSWERS-Decomposition 2. Defining characteristics of a wetland involve which of the following? I. Hydrology II. Soil type III. Species composition - ANSWERS-I, II, and III 3. The rain shadow effect that occurs along the mountain ranges through California are characterized by - ANSWER...

Apes Unit 6 Test Questions and Answers oil, gas, coal mainly consist of - ANSWERS-carbon not part of environmental cost of natural gas - ANSWERS-trace metals released during combustion sector utilizes most energy in US - ANSWERS-industry best describes how nuclear reactor works - ANSWERS-fission chain reaction, neutrons split nuclei of heavy atoms and release energy as heat, then heats water=steam, spins turbine not environmental cost of oil - ANSWERS-US dependency on foreign oi...

APES Review 1 Earth Systems and Resources Exam Questions and Answers illuvation - ANSWERS-deposit of leached material in lower soil layers (B) monoculture - ANSWERS-A large expanse of a single crop; more efficient, increases output; devastates biodiversity; susceptible to disease and pests; narrows human diet. green revolution - ANSWERS-The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivit...

APES Unit 4 Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers What is the top use of freshwater in households? - ANSWERS-Flushing toilets-41% What are the different types of irrigation? EXPLAIN EACH - ANSWERS-1. furrow - 65% efficient 2. flood - 70-80% efficient 3. spray - 75-95% efficient 4. drip - over 95% efficient (reduces weed growth) Define hydroponic agriculture - ANSWERS-... What are some ways water is used industrially? - ANSWERS-a. in US, ½ water goes towards electricity b. coo...

APES Unit 8 Review Exam Questions and Answers most freshwater in the world is used for - ANSWERS-agriculture point source water pollution - ANSWERS-A single identifiable and localized source of water pollution, such as wastewater discharge into a stream. nonpoint source of water pollution - ANSWERS-runoff from agricultural fields drip irrigation - ANSWERS-a method of supplying irrigation water through tubes that literally drip water onto the soil at the base of each plant. cente...

APES Unit 2 Review Exam Questions and Answers Reproductive Isolation - ANSWERS-Long-term geographic separation of members of a particular sexually reproducing species. Endemic Species - ANSWERS-Species that are native to and found only within a limited area. Entropy - ANSWERS-A thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work. First Law of Thermodynamics - ANSWERS-The total energy of an isolated system is con...

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APES Unit 8 exam multiple choice with complete solutions Ground-level ozone in most major United States cities results primarily from A) burning coal B) burning fuel for cooking C) producing electric power D) industrial emissions E) motor-vehicle exhaust - ANSWERS-motor-vehicle exhaust Which of the following is a greenhouse gas that is also a by-product of anaerobic respiration? A) Methane, CH4 B) Nitrogen, N2 C) Oxygen, O2 D) Nitrogen dioxide, NO2 E) Hydrogen sulfide, H2S - AN...

APES VOCAB EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS stratosphere - ANSWERS-the zone in the atmosphere extending from the tropopause to about 50km above the earth's surface; temperatures are stable or rise slightly with altitude; has very little water vapor but is rich in ozone troposphere - ANSWERS-the layer of air nearest to the earth's surface; both temperature and pressure usually decrease with increasing altitude ozone - ANSWERS-a highly reactive molocule containing 3 oxygen atoms; a dang...

APES Exam Review Questions with Complete Solutions Farther away from Earth, density (inreases/decreases)? - ANSWERS-Decreases Northern and southern lights are visible due to gases from where? - ANSWERS-Thermosphere What is the percentage of solar energy the Earth reflects? - ANSWERS-Albedo Four properties of air. - ANSWERS-Density, water vapor capacity, adiabatic heatingn/cooling, latent heat release. What is the maximum amount of water vapor in the air at a given time called? -...

APES Final Exam Questions and Answers The national forests are managed on - ANSWERS-a sustainable-yield multiple-use basis Selective cutting - ANSWERS-maintains an uneven age stand of trees of different species ages and sizes The island with the greatest number of unique species is - ANSWERS-Madagascar the first national park was created in - ANSWERS-the united states the columbia river is located in the - ANSWERS-pacific northwest the worlds largest hydroelectric system is f...

APES Unit 4 AP Collegeboard Exam Questions and Answers Which of the following describes the independent variable in this investigation? - ANSWERS-Soils taken from different locations. Which of the following describes the dependent variable in this investigation? - ANSWERS-Percentage of each particle size in each soil sample A developer wants to develop a large tract of land near a watershed, which will require the removal of several large trees. Which of the following statements best ...

APES Unit 1 Test Questions and Answers Identify TWO ecological benefits provided by intact forest ecosystems (other than reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere). - ANSWERS-Provide food for organisms, produce oxygen Calculate the mass of carbon, in kg, that is accumulated and stored in 1.0 ha of forest in one year. - ANSWERS-1.35 x 10^5 kg C/ha Calculate the mass of carbon, in kg, that is emitted by the school as a result of its fuel-oil consumption in one year. - ANSWERS-8.1 x 10^5 kg ...

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